Elizabeth Ashman Rowe Cultural Paternity in the Flateyjarbók Óláfs saga

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Bergen; Breiðafjörður; Húnavatn; Norway; Rowe; Skagafjörður; Skálholt; Tunga; Víðidalstunga; Þingeyrar; Iceland; Flatey
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.693.3950; http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/%7Ealvismal/8pater.pdf

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...