Möðruvallabók
Möðruvallabók (AM 132 fol. ) Is one of Iceland's best known manuscripts. It was built about 1350 and contains the following anthology Icelandic sagas:
- Njal saga
- Egils saga
- Finnboga saga ramma
- Banda manna saga
- Kormáks saga
- Viga - Glum's saga
- Droplaugarsona saga
- Ölkofra saga
- Hallfreðar saga
- Laxdæla saga
- Fóstbræðra saga
Möðruvallabók contains 200 folio leaves (approx. 34 x 24 cm), were added eleven of which in the 17th century to replace lost leaves. Apart from these leaves all other coming from a writer who is, however, not known by name.
The first known owner of the book was Magnús Björnsson from Munkaþverá, who, while he was in 1628, just in Möðruvellir, with names, date and place earned. 1684 gave his son the book the Danish scholars Thomas Bartholin. Árni Magnússon in 1690 it was bought. On July 16, 1974, the Codex returned to Iceland.