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from the mid-14th century, inscribed on

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. It contains the following

Icelandic sagas The sagas of Icelanders ( is, Íslendingasögur, ), also known as family sagas, are one genre of Icelandic sagas. They are prose narratives mostly based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early el ...

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Njáls saga ''Njáls saga'' ( ), also ''Njála'' ( ), ''Brennu-Njáls saga'' ( ) or ''"The Story of Burnt Njáll"'', is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 and 1020. The saga deals with a process of blood feuds in the I ...

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Egils saga ''Egill's Saga'' or ''Egil's saga'' ( non, Egils saga ; ) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the lives of the clan of Egill Skallagrímsson (Anglicised as Egill Skallagrimsson), an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald. The saga spans the year ...

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Finnboga saga ramma Finnboga saga ramma () (The Saga of Finnbogi the Strong) is an Icelandic saga that recounts the life of Finnbogi rammi. The story takes place in Flateyjardalur in Suður-Þingeyjarsýsla and in other places in Iceland, as well as in Norway. The e ...

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Bandamanna saga Bandamanna saga (Old Norse: ; Modern Icelandic: ) is one of the sagas of Icelanders. It is the only saga in this category that takes place exclusively after the adoption of Christianity in the year 1000. The story tells about the father and son, Of ...

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Víga-Glúms saga ''Víga-Glúms saga'' () is one of the Sagas of Icelanders. It takes place mostly in and around Eyjafjörður in North Iceland, and recounts the life and fall of Glúmr Eyjólfsson, a powerful man whose nickname, ''Víga'', refers to his propensit ...

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Droplaugarsona saga Droplaugarsona saga () is one of the Icelanders' sagas, probably written in the 13th century. The saga takes place near Lagarfljót in the east of Iceland about 1000 AD. It tells the story of Grim (''Grímr'') and Helge (''Helgi''), sons of th ...

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Ölkofra þáttr ''Ölkofra þáttr'' (also known as ''Ölkofra saga''), the "Tale of Ölkofri" or the "Tale of Ale-Hood", is a þáttr, a minor Old Norse prose genre related to the sagas of Icelanders. Preserved in the 14th-century manuscript known as ''Möðruvall ...

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Hallfreðar saga ''Hallfreðar saga vandræðaskálds'' (, Old Norse pronunciation: ) is one of the Icelanders' sagas. The saga is preserved in several 14th century manuscripts, including Möðruvallabók and Flateyjarbók, with significant difference between the v ...

'' *'' Laxdœla saga'' *''Bolla þáttr Bollasonar'' *''

Fóstbrœðra saga ''Fóstbrœðra saga'' () or ''The Saga of the Sworn Brothers'' is one of the Icelanders' sagas. It relates the deeds of the sworn brothers Þorgeir and Þormóðr in early 11th century Iceland and abroad. Þorgeir is a capable and insanely brave ...

'' 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

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of Icelandic sagas of the

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. The manuscript takes its name from Möðruvellir , the

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where it was found.Sarah M. Anderson, "Introduction: 'og eru köld kvenna ráð'", ''Cold Counsel: The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth'', ed. Sarah M Anderson and Karen Swenson, 2000, e-book ed. Hoboken, New Jersey: Taylor and Francis, 2013, , pp. xi–xv
p. xv, note 1
In 1628 Magnús Björnsson signed his name in it with the location.''Íslendínga sögur, udgivne efter gamle Haandskrifter af det kongelige nordiske Oldskrift-Selskab'', 4 vols., , Volume 4, ed. Konráð Gíslason and Eiríkur Jónsson, '' Njála'' Volume 2, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1889
p. 666
It was brought to

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in 1684 by

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and incorporated into the Arnamagnæan Collection in 1690. It was returned to

in 1974 after the collection's division into an Icelandic and a Danish section.

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Images of manuscripts at the Árni Magnússon Institute site
(Möðruvallabók is the second from the top in the list)
Best quality images at handrit.isText in Icelandic at the Árni Magnússon Institute site
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