Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.2010, Síða 60

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Kolbrun Haraldsdottir
[SigurSur Nordal et al., Hg.]. 1944. Flateyjarbok 1. Flateyjarutgåfan,
Akranes.
Stefan Karlsson. 1970. “Um Vatnshyrnu”. Opuscula 4, S. 279-303.
Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana 30. Munksgaard, Kopenhagen; Nachdruck
mit einem “Eftirmåli”: Stefan Karlsson 2000, S. 336—359.
Stefan Karlsson. 2000. Stafkrokar. Ritgerdir eftir Stefan Karlssongefnar ut i
tilefni afsjotugsafmælihans 2. desember ic>p8. Red. GuSvarSur Mår
Gunnlaugsson. Stofnun Arna Magnussonar å Islandi, Rit 49. Stofnun
Årna Magnussonar å Islandi, Reykjavik.
Storm, Gustav, Hg. 1888. Islandske Annaler indtil 1578. Det norske
historiske Kildeskriftfond, Christiania.
Wiirth, Stefanie. 1991. Elemente des Erzahlens. Die f&ttir der Flateyjarbok.
Beitråge zur nordischen Philologie 20. Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag,
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Summary
(English translation by Keneva Kunz)
1. Flateyjarbok, gks 1005 fol., the largest of all Icelandic vellum manu-
scripts, was originally 202 leaves (divided into 26 gatherings), in other words
404 two-column pages. Flateyjarbok contains more details on its own origins
than practically any other Icelandic medieval manuscript: A preface on the
verso of the first leaf States that this book is owned by Jon Håkonarson, its
main contents — the basic framework consisting of O lafs saga Ttyggvasonar
hin mesta, the so-called Separate Olafssaga helga, S verris saga and Hdkonarsaga
Hakonarsonar — are listed, it is said that the priest Jon borSarson wrote of
Eirikr viSfprli and both the Olåff-sagas, while the priest Magnus borhallsson
wrote the continuation after that, as well as that which was written before, and
illuminated it all; in the second column on the recto of the fourth leaf it says
that the book was written in 1387. The initial section Magnus wrote on three