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Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen
LEMMATIZED INDEX TO
THE ICELANDIC HOMILY
BOOK
Perg 15 4S in The Royal Library, Stockholm
ISBN 9979 819 874
The Icelandic Homily Book was written around 1200, possibly at the
Benedictine monastery at Þingeyrar in Northem Iceland, and is probably the
oldest manuscript to have survived in its entirety from this first period of
Icelandic literacy.
The sermons contained in the Homily Book introduced Icelanders to the
teachings of the Christian Church in the first centuries after the conversion in
the year 1000. They reveal the vitality of the language of that time and often
demonstrate an independence with relation to their Latin sources, and thus
have an important place in Icelandic literature.
A facsimile edition of the manuscript with a diplomatic transcription of the
text and an extensive introduction in English was prepared by Andrea de Leeuw
van Weenen and published by the Stofnun Ama Magnússonar á íslandi in the
series Islensk handrit in 1993. The present work, a lemmatized index to the
Icelandic Homily Book, is based on an independent morphological analysis of
the text in that edition, and all references are to page and line in the diplomat-
ic transcription and correspond to the manuscript itself.
This new lemmatized index to the Icelandic Homily Book is intended to
supersede Ludvig Larsson’s index in Ordförrádet i de alsta islanska handskriftema,
which was published in a limited edition of 200 copies in 1891; there all refer-
ences were to Theodor Wisén’s now outdated edition of the Icelandic Homily
Book ffom 1872.
The book is available on order through your bookseller or directfrom:
Háskólaútgáfan • Háskólabíó v/Hagatorg
107 Reykjavík • www.haskolautgafan.hi.is • hu@hi.is
STOFNUN ÁRNA MAGNÚSSONAR Á ÍSLANDI