Sixty-Six Manuscripts From the Arnamagnan Collection [Hardcover]

This volume commemorates the three-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Icelandic scholar and antiquarian ?rni Magn?sson, who served as secretary of the Royal Archives and professor of Danish antiquities at the University of Copenhagen, in addition to building the most important collection of early Scandinavian manuscripts in existence. The book presents descriptions of sixty-six manuscripts from the collection, one for each year of Magnussons life, complemented by high-quality color photographs, a comprehensive introduction to Magn?ssons life, and a chapter on book production in the medieval period.

Matthew J. Driscollis a senior lecturer in Old Norse philology at the University of Copenhagen and head of the Arnemagnaean Institute.Svanhildur ?skarsd?ttiris head of the Manuscript Department at the ?rni Magn?sson Institute for Icelandic studies in Reykjavik.

Manuscripts on the brain—Árni Magnússon, collector
Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
 
Codex Wormianus—Nordic mythology
Peter Springborg
 
Eddic poems and skaldic learning
GudrúnNordal
 
Edda oblongata
Margrét Eggertsdóttir
 
A short history of the kings of Norway
Matthew Driscoll
 
The oldest saga in Iceland—Oddr Snorrason’s saga of Olaf Tryggvason
Annette Lassen
 
Codex Frisianus
Jonna Louis-Jensen
 
A fragment of the younger redaction of the lost Skjöldunga saga
Annette Lassen
 
The first steps of a scholar
Tereza Lansing
 
A divided codex
Silvia Hufnagel
 
The oldest fragment of an Íslendingasaga
Alex Speed Kjeldsen
 
Kentill Jörundsson’s copy of Egils saga
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