Icelandic Law: a Late Medieval Manuscript

Ic G1 J811

Jónsbók

Manuscript, ca. 1550

Icelandic Manuscripts: Perpetuation of the Medieval

Ic G1 J811

Jónsbók

Manuscript, ca. 1550, dated through a comparison of hands found on other Icelandic manuscripts.

This manuscript is a copy of a medieval code of laws imposed on Iceland and still in force in later centuries. The parchment is heavy and durable. The volume was rebound in recent years.

 

Ic F75 A125 (.1 & .2)

Jarlmanns saga ; Konráðs saga keisarasonar.

[ca. 1824]

In manuscript compendium supplied with title Ýmsar sögur (early nineteenth century). The two sagas in this section are Old Norse-Icelandic medieval romances (sagas with themes from the European Age of Chivalry). The writing material is paper. Icelanders continued a lively tradition of copying these venerable stories in new manuscripts until the twentieth century.

Borg

Borg (Iceland), farmstead of the poet Egill Skallagrímsson

celebrated in Egils saga Skallagrímssonar.

From A Pilgrimage to the Saga-Steads of Iceland, by W.G. Collingwood and Jón Stefánsson

(1899)