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Njáls saga Stemmas, Old and New
- Author(s):
- Alaric Hall (see profile) , Zeevaert Ludger
- Date:
- 2018
- Subject(s):
- Transmission of texts
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Njáls saga, stemma, stemmatics, Old Norse, Text transmission
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6QV3C37P
- Abstract:
- Despite its fame as the pre-eminent medieval Icelandic saga, Njáls saga lacks a stemma comprehending all the saga’s manuscripts: only the vellum manuscripts have been surveyed in detail. As part of the Variance of Njáls saga (Breytileki Njáls sögu) project, we produced a stemma of nearly all witnesses to chapters 44, 86, and 142. This affords the first systematic insight into the post-medieval manuscript transmission of the saga. The present article focuses on two aspects of the post-medieval transmission which turn out to be of particular interest: the huge popularity of the lost medieval manuscript *Gullskinna in the post-medieval scribal tradition, and a revision of the branch of the Njáls saga stemma labelled as *Y by Einar Ólafur (noted for being represented by Oddabók, AM 466 4to).
- Notes:
- The plate included in the article is also available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_post-medieval_transmission_of_Nj%C3%A1ls_saga_complete_stemma_figure_1.svg.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter Show details
- Publisher:
- Medieval Institute Publications
- Pub. Date:
- 2018
- Book Title:
- New Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Njáls saga: The historia mutila of Njála
- Author/Editor:
- Emily Lethbridge and Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
- Page Range:
- 179 - 202
- ISBN:
- 9781580443050
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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