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040-002110396
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BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXI (ff. 228). 'Edda Saemundar Hins Fróða'. A copy of Codex Regius (R.) of the Poetical (or Elder) Edda, with marginal collations from paper MSS; followed by eight Lays from various sources; 18th cent. 'No. 11' according to a note on f. 1. The lacuna in the latter part of Sigrdrífumál (here entitled 'Brinhilldar qviÞa Budla dottur') is supplied by a passage 'ex libro quodam chartaceo', beg. 'aulÞr mal til øfug' (f. 128): compare the edition of Möbius (1860), p. 143, and that of Bugge (1867), p. 233. This is followed by a passage from 'liber chartaceus alter,' beg. 'Ef Þu heyrir heimsklig orÞ' (f. 128b), taken from Völsunga saga: see C. C. Rafn, Fornaldar Sögur Norðrlanda, i, Copenhagen, 1829, p. 172. Codex Regius begins again with the words 'Hvat hefir SigurÞr' (f. 129b). The two inserted passages are re-copied, after Hamðismál, at ff. 186, 187; and they are then followed by another passage in prose, ending with two strophes (ff. 187b- 188b), abridged from Völsunga saga: see op. cit. i, pp. 172-186. The rest of the volume contains the following mythical Lays:-

(a) Hrafnagaldr Óðins (or Forspjallsljóð). ff. 189-192b;- (b) Vegtamskviða (or Baldrs draumar). ff. 192b-195;- (c) Fjölsvinnsmál. ff. 195-200;- (d) Hyndluljóð. ff. 200-207;- (e) Gróugaldr. ff. 207- 208;- (f) Grottasöngr, with the prose Introduction. ff. 209-212b;- (g) Getspeki Heiiðreks konungs, with a prose Introduction. ff. 212b-219;-

(h) Sólarljóð. ff. 220-228. This arrangement is the same as that of Codex Luxdorphianus, as described in the Arna-Magnaean edition of the Edda Saemundar, Pars ii, Copenhagen, 1818, pp. xviii-xx; but there the Sólarljóð is followed by two songs of Egill Skallagrimsson. The Codex Luxdorphianus is numbered 1866, quarto, in the Royal Library at Copenhagen. It is fully described by Sophus Bugge, Saemundar Edda, Christiania, 1867, pp. lvr-lvii.

Icelandic MSS Collection of sagas, annals, legal codes, etc. in Icelandic as follows:: The elder Edda: 18th cent.

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Add MS 4877 : BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXI (ff. 228). 'Edda Saemundar Hins Fróða'. A copy of Codex Regius (R.) of the Poetical (or Elder)…
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English
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Latin
Start Date:
1700
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1799
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18th century
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CE
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