Möðruvallabók

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Möðruvallabók or AM 132 fol is an Icelandic manuscript from the mid-14th century, inscribed on vellum. It contains the following Icelandic sagas in this order:

• Njáls saga
• Egils saga
• Finnboga saga ramma
• Bandamanna saga
• Kormáks saga
• Víga-Glúms saga
• Droplaugarsona saga
• Ölkofra þáttr
• Hallfreðar saga
• Laxdœla saga
• Fóstbrœðra saga

Many of those sagas are preserved in fragments elsewhere but are only found in their full length from Möðruvallabók, which contains the largest known single repertoire of Icelandic sagas of the Middle Ages. It was brought to Denmark in 1684 and incorporated into the Arnamagnæan Collection. It was returned to Iceland in 1974 after the collection's division into an Icelandic and a Danish section.

[edit] External links

• Images of manuscripts at the Árni Magnússon Institute site (Möðruvallabók is the second from the top in the list)
• Text in Icelandic at the Árni Magnússon Institute site
• Entry at Sagnanet
• Árni Magnússon and the Collecting of Icelandic Manuscripts

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