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KIRSTEN WOLF
THE TRANSLATIO ET MIRACULA
ROTOMAGENSIA
IN ICELANDIC TRANSLATION
(AM 180b fol)
I
IN THE Catalogus Codicum pergamenorum qvos anno 1707, 1708, 1709,
1717 possidet Arnas Magnæus, the contents of AM 180a and 180b fol.,
which originally formed one codex,1 are described as follows: “Karla
Magnuss Saga, vantar framanvid og vida i Miduna. Aptanaf Konradz
Sògu Keisarasonar. Dunstani Saga (authore fratre Arnone Laurentii f.)
vantar i. Katrinar Saga, vantar i. Bærings Saga fagra. Ur Knytlinga Sògu,
um Knut helga, Olaf, Eirik goda, og Nikulas. Vantar vid endan. um Svein
Ulfsson og Haralld Hein (ur Knytlinga Sògu) vantar upp hafed. Vitus Saga
Pislarvottz. vantar i. Laurentius Saga Holabiskups. vantar i.”2 It is also
noted that the manuscript, a curious potpourri of texts of various genres,
comprising romances, saints’ lives, kings’ sagas, and bishops’ sagas, was
received in various places in the north of Iceland and from various people;
those mentioned are Skúli Ólafsson (of Seyla in Skagafjörður) and Magnús
Jónsson of Leirá.3
The manuscript, which has been described in detail by Christine Fell
and Árni Björnsson,4 has generally been dated to the fifteenth century,
1 Kr. Kålund, Katalog over Den arnamagnæanske Håndskriftsamling, 2 vols. (Copenhagen:
Gyldendal, 1889–1894), vol. 1, 147.
2 [Kr. Kålund, ed.,] Arne Magnussons i AM. 345 A–B, 4to indeholdte Håndskriftfortegnelser med
to tillæg (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1909), 43–44.
3 From Skúli Ólafsson Árni Magnússon received Vitus saga and Laurentius saga; see Chris tine
Elizabeth Fell, ed. Dunstanus saga, Editiones Arnamagnæanæ, Series B, vol. 5 (Copenhagen:
Munksgaard, 1963), lxv, and Árni Björnsson, ed. Laurentius saga biskups, Rit handritastofn-
unar Íslands 3 (Reykjavík: Ísafold, 1969), xxxi–xxxiii. The leaves containing “Katrinar saga”
must therefore have been obtained from Magnús Jónsson or elsewhere.
4 Fell, ed., Dunstanus saga, lxiv–lxxx, and Árni Björnsson, ed. Laurentius saga biskups, xxvii–
xl.
Gripla XIX (2008): 169–191.