Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, JS 410 8vo

From The Seven Sages of Rome

Manuscript Identification

Reference Number
IcelandicVersion20
Siglum / Shelfmark
JS 410 8vo

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative
Incipit or textual title
„Saga Alexanders og Loðvíks“
Language Group within Version
Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version
Further scholarly subgroup (1)
Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated / adapted from (Version/Text)
Danish Version H
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Note

  • the mansucripts contains two Vaticinium/Amici-texts - 1) being a complete version dated 6 March 1767 and signed by the scribe (Sigurður Magnússon í Holtum); 2) is a fragment from the 19th century, the beginning is missing, has many repairs and the text is shortened (Seelow suggests, it might be a prose version of a Rímur or of the poem Vinaspegill) (see Seelow 1989: 213)

Authorship & Production


Date of Production
1700 - 1900
Source of Date of Production

Physical Description



Prose or verse
Illustrations
No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript
  • Mágus saga
  • Alexanders saga
  • Tristran og Indíana
  • Eiríks saga víðförla
  • Þorgríms saga konungs og kappa hans

Catalogues & Research Literature

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Research Material

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