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Reykjavík Reykjavík is the Capital city, capital and largest city in Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland on the southern shore of Faxaflói, the Faxaflói Bay. With a latitude of 64°08′ N, the city is List of northernmost items, the worl ...
, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, AM 510 4to) is a mid-sixteenth-century Icelandic manuscript, written between 1540 and 1560 by Ari Jónsson and his sons Jón and Tómas Arason. It contains eight sagas, including one of the two main sources of ''
Finnboga saga ramma Finnboga saga ramma () (The Saga of Finnbogi the Strong) is an Icelandic saga that recounts the life of Finnbogi rammi. The story takes place in Flateyjardalur in Suður-Þingeyjarsýsla and in other places in Iceland, as well as in Norway. The ...
'' and the youngest version of ''
Jómsvíkinga saga The ''Jómsvíkinga saga'' ("''Saga of the Jomsvikings''") is a medieval Icelandic saga composed by an anonymous author. The saga was composed in Iceland during the 13th century. It exists in several manuscripts which vary from each other. There a ...
'', which may contain interpolations from an older, independent version of this saga. Eight of the eleven remaining stanzas of Tindr Hallkelsson's '' Hákonardrápa'' are preserved in this version of ''Jómsvíkinga saga''.


Contents

As catalogued at Handrit.is, the manuscript contains the following texts: * '' Víglundar saga'' (1r-8r) * '' Bósa saga'' (8v-21r) * '' Jarlmanns saga og Hermanns'' (21r-32v) * '' Þorsteins þáttur bæjarmagns'' (32v-38v) * ''
Jómsvíkinga saga The ''Jómsvíkinga saga'' ("''Saga of the Jomsvikings''") is a medieval Icelandic saga composed by an anonymous author. The saga was composed in Iceland during the 13th century. It exists in several manuscripts which vary from each other. There a ...
'' (38v-67r) * ''
Finnboga saga ramma Finnboga saga ramma () (The Saga of Finnbogi the Strong) is an Icelandic saga that recounts the life of Finnbogi rammi. The story takes place in Flateyjardalur in Suður-Þingeyjarsýsla and in other places in Iceland, as well as in Norway. The ...
'' (67r-88v) * '' Drauma-Jóns saga'' (88v-91v) * '' Friðþjófs saga'' (91v-96r)


References


Further reading

* *{{Cite journal, last1=Jóhannesdóttir, first1=Þórdís Edda, last2=Óskarsson, first2=Veturliði, date=2014, title=The Manuscripts of Jómsvíkinga Saga A Survey, url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:778534/FULLTEXT01.pdf, journal=Scripta Islandica, volume=65, pages=9–29 Icelandic manuscripts