Gripla - 2019, Blaðsíða 28
GRIPLA28
manuscript is a single folded sheet of paper preserving verses exchanged
between an unknown immigrant poet(ess) and Sölvi Löngumýri, as well
as several verses dated July 17th, 1914.61
NIHM 020012.3301
NIHM 020012.3301 (hereafter NIHM) is the youngest of Albert’s manu-
scripts. NIHM begins with thirteen sagas copied between 1901 and 1910,
probably bound in the same order as Albert completed them. Five include
their dates of completion (see Table 3), which is a departure in style from
Albert’s earlier, sparsely dated manuscripts. Six are medieval Icelandic ridd-
arasögur, the first three of which (Mágus saga, Konráðs saga keisara sonar
and Þjalar-Jóns saga) had all been published in a print edition by 1901.
Seven sagas are post-medieval compositions, including Knúts saga heimska,
first printed in 1911, and Ketlerusar saga keisaraefnis, printed in 1905 (a year
before Albert copied it). A third saga, Henriks saga heilráða, was published
in 1908, the year after Albert copied it. Ásmundar saga Hryggjubana almost
certainly derives from a manuscript copy, since it was never published,
but a rímur by Sigurður Bjarnason of Vatnsnes and his father, Bjarni
Sigurðsson, could also have been its source.62 Although Albert is the main
scribe, a second unidentified hand copies 14 lines of Ásmundar saga víkings
on f. 100v and another 14 lines on f. 108r.
Ff. Title Completed
1r–86v Mágus saga jarls 03-08-1901
87r–100r Knúts saga heimska – –
100r–120r Ásmundar saga víkings – –
120v–138v Konráðs saga keisarasonar – –
139r–161v Þjalar-Jóns saga – –
161v–174r Haralds saga Hringsbana – –
174r–191v Ásmundar saga Hryggjubana 28-04-1906
191v–225r Ketlerusar saga keisaraefnis 28-07-1906
225r–252v Adonias saga – –
61 Sölvi Sölvason from Syðri-Langamýri (1829–1903), who immigrated to Canada in 1876.
Sölvi was an owner of akrabók (SÁM 72).
62 Finnur Sigmundsson, Rímnatal, 48.