Codex Frisianus

Part of Haralds saga hárfagrain the Codex Frisianus.

Codex Frisianus or Fríssbók (shelfmark AM 45 fol. in the Arnamagnæanske samling) is a manuscript of the early fourteenth century.

Among its 124 folios, it contains Heimskringla (without the Saga of Saint Olaf) and Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar.

It might have been written in Iceland and soon moved into Norway[1] or have been composed in Norway.[2] It was found in Bergen in 1550 and brought to Denmark before 1600, when it was acquired by the collector Otto Friis, from whom it takes its name.[3] It then came into the possession of Jens Rosenkrantz before being bought in 1695 by Árni Magnússon. The latter gave it at his death (1730) to the University of Copenhagen.[4]

Facsimiles and transcriptions

References

  1. Andersson, Theodore M., Gade, Kari Ellen, Morkinskinna: the earliest Icelandic chronicle of the Norwegian kings (1030-1157), Islandica, LI (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), p. 8. ISBN 0-8014-3694-X.
  2. Hollander, Lee M., Snorri Sturluson. Heimskringla: history of the kings of Norway (Austin: University of Texas Press for the American-Scandinavian Foundation, 2005), p. xxiv. ISBN 0-292-73061-6.
  3. Hollander, Lee M., Snorri Sturluson. Heimskringla: history of the kings of Norway (Austin: University of Texas Press for the American-Scandinavian Foundation, 2005), p. xxiv. ISBN 0-292-73061-6.
  4. http://handrit.is/en/manuscript/view/da/AM02-045.

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