Ormr Snorrason (–1403) was an Icelander who worked for the Norwegian king as sheriff, lawman and governor. Ormr inherited

Skarð Skarð (pronounced ) is an abandoned village on the east coast of the island of Kunoy in the Norðoyar region of the Faroes. Skarð means ''mountain pass''. On December 23, 1913, all seven able-bodied men of the village perished while out fishin ...

, one of the largest estates in

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

, after the death of his father in 1332. Ormr is associated with three important Icelandic manuscripts written at the

Helgafell Helgafell (, "holy mountain") is a small mountain on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula of Iceland. The mountain is high. A temple in honor of Thor (''Þór'') was built there by Þórólfr Mostrarskegg, the first settler of the area. His biography is ...

monastery:

Codex Scardensis ''Codex Scardensis'' or ''Skarðsbók postulasagna'' (Reykjavík, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, SÁM 1 4to) is a large Icelandic manuscript containing Old Norse-Icelandic sagas of the apostles. It is, along with Flateyjarbók, one of the largest 14t ...

, which he donated to the church at Skarð in 1401; Skarðsbók (AM 350 fol) which contains the legal code Jónsbók; and

Ormsbók Ormsbók or Ormr Snorrason's Book was a large Icelandic manuscript of chivalric sagas. It is assumed that it was destroyed in the Stockholm castle fire of 1697 as it was last recorded in an inventory in 1693. It takes its name from Ormr Snorrason, ...

, a now lost collection of

chivalric sagas The ''riddarasögur'' (literally 'sagas of knights', also known in English as 'chivalric sagas', 'romance-sagas', 'knights' sagas', 'sagas of chivalry') are Norse prose sagas of the romance genre. Starting in the thirteenth century with Norse tr ...

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