About “Skálholtsbók”
Reykjavík, AM 557 4to, also known as Skálholtsbók, is an Icelandic saga manuscript. It is now incomplete, having lost three gatherings of eight leaves and twenty individual leaves, leaving only 48 leaves. Despite this, it contains several sagas, either in whole or in part, including Valdimars saga, Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu, Hallfreðar saga vandræðaskálds, Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar, Eiríks saga rauða, Rögnvalds þáttur og Rauðs, Dámusta saga, Hróa þáttur heimska, Eiríks saga víðförla, Stúfs saga, Karls þáttur vesæla, and Sveinka þáttur. It is believed to have been written by Ólafur Loftsson, the son of Loftur ríki Guttormsson, in northern Iceland around 1420. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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- 1420
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