Icelandic Verse: Sjö meistara saga: Difference between revisions

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The manuscripts of the Sjö meistara saga (Icelandic Version H) consist of prose translations from the Danish Folkebog as well as verse adaptations. The latter mostly appear in the form of the Icelandic Rímur (literal translation being 'rhymes'). Hubert Seelow divides the verse adaptations into two Groups: Group C is concerned with Rímur adaptaions; Group D designates the adaptaions into the poem Vinaspegill. The oldest manuscripts of a verse adaptation that we know of date back to the 2nd half of the 17th century. However, the Rímur cycle they include was created by Björn Sturluson (1559-1621), which means that this version had to be around at least since the 1st quarter of the 17th century (see Seelow 1989: 214-215).

General Information
Language within Version	Icelandic
Narrative / Scholarly Group
Parent Versions	Icelandic Version H
Child Versions	Group C: Rímur, Group D: Vinaspegill
Author
Title
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages
Version Number
Branch of the tradition	West

Language & Composition
Original language of version	Icelandic
Translated into (languages)
Place of composition
Date of composition
Source for date of composition

Literature & Editions
Modern research literature	Seelow (1989), Rímnatal II, Björn Karel Þórólfsson (1965), Rímnatal I, Björn Karel Þórólfsson (1934), Björn Karel Þórólfsson (1947)
Modern Editions

Recorded branch of this secondary version
H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Czech Version H: Kronika sedmi mudrců Danish Version H Dutch Version H English Version H English Prints (H) French Version H German Version H German Prints (H) Prosafassung / Prose Version Redaction A Redaction B Redaction C Redaction D Redaction E Redaction F Redaction G Versfassung / Verse Version Anonymous Verse Version Bühnenfassung / Stage adaptation: Sebastian Wild, Tragedj Hans von Bühel, Dyocletianus Leben Hungarian Version H Icelandic Version H Icelandic Prose: Sjö meistara saga Group A: Sjö meistara saga Group B: Alexander og Lúðvík Icelandic Verse: Sjö meistara saga Group C: Rímur Group D: Vinaspegill Latin Version H Excerpts in Gesta Romanorum Continental Group w Continental Group x Insular Group u Group I Group II Group III Group IV Lost Latin Version H Manuscripts Polish Version H Scots Version H: Rolland, Seuin Seages Spanish Version H: Los Siete Sabios de Roma Spanish Prints (H) Swedish Version H: Sju vise mästare Old Swedish Redaction C Swedish Prints (H)

Connected prints
No connected prints

Adaptations
Adapted from (version)	Icelandic Version H
Adapted into (version)
Source for composition and adaptation information	Seelow (1989)

Languages in Use
Language of text	Icelandic
Regional or specific language of version

Notes
Note
Notes on motifs
Notes on the frame

Pattern of embedded stories in this version

Connected manuscripts

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