Möðruvallabók



Möðruvallabók or AM 132 fol is an Icelandic manuscript from the mid-14th century, inscribed on vellum. It contains the following Icelandic sagas in this order:


 * Njáls saga
 * Egils saga
 * Finnboga saga ramma
 * Bandamanna saga
 * Kormáks saga
 * Víga-Glúms saga
 * Droplaugarsona saga
 * Ölkofra þáttr
 * Hallfreðar saga
 * Laxdœla saga
 * Bolla þáttr Bollasonar
 * Fóstbrœðra saga

Many of those sagas are preserved in fragments elsewhere but are only found in their full length in Möðruvallabók, which contains the largest known single repertoire of Icelandic sagas of the Middle Ages.

The manuscript takes its name from Möðruvellir, the farm in Eyjafjörður where it was found. In 1628, Magnús Björnsson signed his name in it with the location. It was brought to Denmark in 1684 by Magnús Björnsson's son Björn, who gifted it to Thomas Bartholin. Árni Magnússon acquired the manuscript in 1691 after Bartholin's death, and it was incorporated into the Arnamagnæan Collection. It was returned to Iceland in 1974 after the collection's division into an Icelandic and a Danish section. Margaret Clunies Ross has asserted that the saga was arranged geographically, and Emily Lethbridge has shown that Njáls saga could have been treated as a separate text from the rest of the extant manuscript.