Morkinskinna

The Morkinskinna is a Norse king saga that tells the history of the Norwegian kings from about 1025 to 1157. The saga was written in Iceland in 1220, and has been preserved in a manuscript dating from around 1275. The name Morkinskinna means " verschimmeltetes parchment " and was originally the name of the manuscript book in which the saga is preserved. The book itself, GKS 1009 fol, is currently in the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen. She was taken by Þormóður Torfason ( Tormod Torfæus ) from Iceland to Denmark in 1662. In 2000, the saga of Theodore Murdock Andersson and Kari Ellen Gade has been translated into the English language.

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The saga begins in 1025 or 1026 and breaks in the resulting manuscript in 1157, after the death of King Sigurd II from. Originally, the saga were longer and may date back to the year 1177, as the stories Fagrskinna and Heimskringla that use the Morkinskinna as one of their sources. In addition to the main saga of the text with quotations from lavishly interspersed skaldic verses ( about 270 verses ) is added and contains a series of short Icelandic fairy tales, which are known as Þáttir

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  • Finnur Jónsson (ed.): Morkinskinna. Copenhagen: Samfund til udgivelse af gammel nordisk litteratur (1932 ) online (PDF, 19.5 MB).
  • Ármann Jakobsson, Þórður Ingi Guðjónsson (ed.): Morkinskinna I-II. Íslenzk fornrit 23-24. Reykjavík: HID íslenzka fornritafélag ( 2011).
  • Theodore Murdock Andersson, Kari Ellen Gade ( translator's ): Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings ( 1030-1157 ). Islandica 51 ( 2000). ISBN 0-8014-3694 -X
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