Icelandic Version H

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The Historia septem sapientum found its way into the Icelandic comparatively late through prints of the German Volksbuch (German Version H) and the Danish Folkebog (Danish Version H). Translated into prose and adapted into verse, the earliest extant manuscripts were written between presumably the last quarter of the 16^th century and the first half of the 17^th century (see Seelow 1989: 214, 201). From there the manuscript tradition of the Sjö meistara saga reaches across the 18^th and 19^th century until the first quarter of the 20^th century (the latest manuscript being from 1925). Hubert Seelow divides the Icelandic Version H into four Groups (A–D). Group A und B concern prose translations of either the whole Danish Folkebog text (Group A) or the Vaticinium and Amici story – i.e. Alexander and Ludwig – (Group B). In the verse versions, the whole Folkebog or single stories are adapted into a Rímur cycle (an Icelandic form of poetry; Group C), or – specifically – the story of Alexander and Ludwig is adapted into the poem Vinaspegill (Group D). For the latter, Seelow also mentions three prints from 1845, 1904, and 1909 – all printed in Reykjavík (see Seelow 1989: 216). The texts from the other Groups were never printed in Iceland (see Seelow 1989: 44).

The Danish Folkebog includes, in contrast to its German source, a verse version of Canis additionally to the prose Canis, and a remark at the end about Diocletian's persecution of Christians (see Seelow 1989: 200). These changes partially appear in the Icelandic adaptations.

Ralph O'Connor very briefly remarks "that the 'Eastern Branch' frame-story [of the Seven Sages] had found its way to Iceland, independently of the Seven Sages, by the late eighteenth century at the very latest: an Icelandic version of a Danish translation (1746) of Galland's Les Mille et Une Nuits (1717) survives in three Icelandic manuscripts" (O'Connor 2000: 35, footnote 45).

[Added by Elisabeth Böttcher]

General Information
Language within Version	Icelandic
Narrative / Scholarly Group
Parent Versions	H (Historia Septem Sapientum)
Child Versions	Icelandic Prose: Sjö meistara saga, Icelandic Verse: Sjö meistara saga
Author
Title
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages
Version Number
Branch of the tradition	West

Language & Composition
Original language of version
Translated into (languages)
Place of composition
Date of composition	around 1600 / 1st half of the 17th century
Source for date of composition	Seelow (1989)

Literature & Editions
Modern research literature	Seelow (1989), Einar Ólafur Sveinsson (1929), Jón Þorkelsson (1888), Páll Eggert Ólason (1942), O'Connor (2000)
Modern Editions

Recorded branch of this secondary version

H (Historia Septem Sapientum) Czech Version H: Kronika sedmi mudrců Danish Version H Dutch Version H Dutch Prints (H) Dutch Prose Version H English Version H English Prints (H) French Version H German Version H Aventewr von Diocleciano German Prints (H) Hystorij von Diocleciano 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 Scots Prints (H) 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)
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

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Manuscript Language Location Date of Production København Den Arnamagnaeanske Samling Rask 38 Icelandic København, Den Arnamagnaeanske Samling 1763 København Det kongelige Bibliotek Thott 1776 4to Icelandic København, Det kongelige Bibliotek 1700 - 1723 London British Library BL Add 11,158 Icelandic London, British Library 1700 - 1800 London British Library BL Add 4884 Icelandic London, British Library 1700 - 1800 Lund Universitetsbibliotek LUB 4to 4 Icelandic Lund, Universitetsbibliotek 1725 - 1772 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, JS 201 4to Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn 1837 - 1850 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, JS 251 4to Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn 1700 - 1800 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, JS 410 8vo Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn 1700 - 1900 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, JS 579 4to Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn 1600 - 1900 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 1137 8vo Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn 1800 - 1900 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 1138 8vo Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn 1800 - 1899 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 131 fol. 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1900 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 4646 4to Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn 1830 - 1838 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 468 4to Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn 1853 - 1857 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 4730 8vo Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn 1891 - 1893 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 4777 8vo Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn 1815 - 1875 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 4950 8vo Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn 1800 - 1899 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 5049 8vo Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn 1882 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 5213 8vo Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn, Lbs 5383 8vo Icelandic Reykjavík, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn 1925 Reykjavík Landsbókasafn Íslands - 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