Hall, A orcid.org/0000-0002-1479-4441 and Zeevaert, L (2018) Njáls Saga Stemmas, Old And New. In: Lethbridge, E and Óskarsdóttir, S, (eds.) New Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of Njáls saga: The historia mutila of Njála. The Northern Medieval World, 2 . Medieval Instititute Publications , Kalamazoo, MI , pp. 179-202. ISBN 9781580443050
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 all witnesses to chapter 86 (forty-nine out of the total sixty or so surviving manuscripts and fragments), supplemented with targeted samples from chapter 142 (32 manuscripts). 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).
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018, by the Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | stemmas; sagas; iceland; Njáls saga; manuscripts |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 06 Apr 2016 14:03 |
Last Modified: | 19 Apr 2021 14:47 |
Published Version: | https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/978... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Medieval Instititute Publications |
Series Name: | The Northern Medieval World |
Identification Number: | 10.1515/9781580443067-011 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:96089 |