Elizabeth Ashman Rowe Cultural Paternity in the Flateyjarbók Óláfs saga
Flateyjarbók is the name given to Gks 1005 fol., the largest and certainlyamong the most beautiful of all extant medieval Icelandic manuscripts,containing a number of exceptionally fine historiated initials and marginaldrawings. The manuscript was given to Brynjólfur Sveinsson, bishop of Skálholt, b...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.693.3950 2023-05-15T15:46:29+02:00 Elizabeth Ashman Rowe Cultural Paternity in the Flateyjarbók Óláfs saga The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1998 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.693.3950 http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/%7Ealvismal/8pater.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.693.3950 http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/%7Ealvismal/8pater.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/%7Ealvismal/8pater.pdf text 1998 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T18:30:35Z Flateyjarbók is the name given to Gks 1005 fol., the largest and certainlyamong the most beautiful of all extant medieval Icelandic manuscripts,containing a number of exceptionally fine historiated initials and marginaldrawings. The manuscript was given to Brynjólfur Sveinsson, bishop of Skálholt, by the farmer Jón Finnsson of Flatey in Breiðafjörður, whence its name. Brynjólfur presented it in turn to the king, Frederik III, and it subsequently passed to the Royal Library in Copenhagen, where it remained until being transferred to Iceland in 1971. Originally commissioned by Jón Hákonarson, a wealthy farmer who lived at Víðidalstunga in the Húnavatn district in the north of Iceland, Flateyjarbók was undoubtedly written somewhere in that area, either at Víðidals-tunga or at the nearby monastery of Þingeyrar, or possibly to the east of Húnavatn, in Skagafjörður. It was begun by the priest Jón Þórðarson in 1387; his hand begins on folio 4 verso, originally the verso of the first leaf of the manuscript, and contin-ues through the next-to-last line of the first column of folio 134 verso. On these pages he copied Eiríks saga víðforla, Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar, and virtually all of Óláfs saga helga. Jón Þórðarson evidently left Iceland for Bergen, Norway, in the spring of 1388, and the work of continuing Flateyjarbók fell to another priest, Magnús Þórhallsson, whose hand begins on the last line of the first column of Text Breiðafjörður Iceland Flatey Unknown Bergen Breiðafjörður ENVELOPE(-23.219,-23.219,65.253,65.253) Húnavatn ENVELOPE(-20.380,-20.380,65.566,65.566) Norway Rowe ENVELOPE(-60.904,-60.904,-62.592,-62.592) Skagafjörður ENVELOPE(-19.561,-19.561,65.875,65.875) Skálholt ENVELOPE(-20.525,-20.525,64.126,64.126) Tunga ENVELOPE(8.683,8.683,62.698,62.698) Víðidalstunga ENVELOPE(-20.603,-20.603,65.355,65.355) Þingeyrar ENVELOPE(-20.403,-20.403,65.552,65.552) |
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Flateyjarbók is the name given to Gks 1005 fol., the largest and certainlyamong the most beautiful of all extant medieval Icelandic manuscripts,containing a number of exceptionally fine historiated initials and marginaldrawings. The manuscript was given to Brynjólfur Sveinsson, bishop of Skálholt, by the farmer Jón Finnsson of Flatey in Breiðafjörður, whence its name. Brynjólfur presented it in turn to the king, Frederik III, and it subsequently passed to the Royal Library in Copenhagen, where it remained until being transferred to Iceland in 1971. Originally commissioned by Jón Hákonarson, a wealthy farmer who lived at Víðidalstunga in the Húnavatn district in the north of Iceland, Flateyjarbók was undoubtedly written somewhere in that area, either at Víðidals-tunga or at the nearby monastery of Þingeyrar, or possibly to the east of Húnavatn, in Skagafjörður. It was begun by the priest Jón Þórðarson in 1387; his hand begins on folio 4 verso, originally the verso of the first leaf of the manuscript, and contin-ues through the next-to-last line of the first column of folio 134 verso. On these pages he copied Eiríks saga víðforla, Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar, and virtually all of Óláfs saga helga. Jón Þórðarson evidently left Iceland for Bergen, Norway, in the spring of 1388, and the work of continuing Flateyjarbók fell to another priest, Magnús Þórhallsson, whose hand begins on the last line of the first column of |
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