Hulda-Hrokkinskinna

Hulda-Hrokkinskinna

"Hulda-Hrokkinskinna" is one of the kings' sagas. Written sometime after 1280 it relates the history of the Norwegian kings from Magnús góði, who acceded to the throne in 1035, to Magnús Erlingsson, who died in 1177.

The saga is based on Snorri Sturluson's "Heimskringla" but supplemented by prose and poetry from a version of "Morkinskinna" which is no longer extant. "Hulda-Hrokkinskinna" is especially valuable in places where the preserved "Morkinskinna" manuscript is defective. It preserves eight verses of skaldic poetry found nowhere else by the poets Arnórr Þórðarson, Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Bölverkr Arnórsson and Þórarinn stuttfeldr.

Some early commentators believed "Heimskringla" to be based on "Hulda-Hrokkinskinna", rather than the other way around. This theory has recently been championed again with the argument that it leads to a simpler stemma for the manuscripts of the sagas.

The saga is preserved in two manuscripts. "Hulda" ("the hidden manuscript") or "AM 66 fol." is an Icelandic manuscript from the last part of the 14th century. It consists of 142 leaves while the first six (the first quire) are lost. "Hrokkinskinna" ("wrinkled parchment") or "GKS 1010 fol." is an Icelandic manuscript from the beginning of the fifteenth century. Its first 91 leaves contain the text of "Hulda-Hrokkinskinna" while its last four leaves, added in the 16th century, contain an incomplete version of "Hemings þáttr Áslákssonar". The text of "Hulda" is better than that of "Hrokkinskinna".

"Hulda-Hrokkinskinna" contains a number of "þættir".

*"Þorgríms þáttr Hallasonar"
*"Hrafns þáttr Guðrúnarsonar"
*"Hreiðars þáttr"
*"Halldórs þáttr Snorrasonar"
*"Auðunar þáttr vestfirzka"
*"Brands þáttr örva"
*"Þorsteins þáttr sögufróða"
*"Þorvarðar þáttr krákunefs"
*"Sneglu-Halla þáttr"
*"Odds þáttr Ófeigssonar"
*"Stúfs þáttr"
*"Gísls þáttr Illugasonar"
*"Ívars þáttr Ingimundarsonar"
*"Gull-Ásu-Þórðar þáttr"
*"Þinga þáttr"

The text of "Hulda-Hrokkinskinna" was printed in the sixth and seventh volumes of "Fornmanna sögur" in 1831 and 1832. As af 2006 the saga has not been published again. The Danish scholar Jonna Louis-Jensen has done extensive work on "Hulda-Hrokkinskinna". In 1968 she published a facsimile edition of "Hulda" and in 1977 a critical analysis of the saga. She has almost completed a new critical edition of the saga.

References

* Andersson, Theodore M. and Kari Ellen Gade (editors and translators) (2000). "Morkinskinna : The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030—1157)". Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-3694-X
* Berger, Alan J. (2002). "Heimskringla" is an abbreviation of "Hulda-Hrokkinskinna" in "Arkiv för nordisk filologi" 2001:65-9. ISSN 0066-7668
* [http://sagnanet.is/saganet/?MIval=/SinglePage&Manuscript=100203&Page=1840&language=english Fornmanna sögur VI]
* [http://sagnanet.is/saganet/?MIval=/SinglePage&Manuscript=100203&Page=2305&language=english Fornmanna sögur VII]
* [http://skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/db.php?table=texts&id=84 Hulda-Hrokkinskinna]
* [http://skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/db.php?table=mss&id=32 Hulda]
* [http://skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/db.php?table=mss&id=393 Hrokkinskinna]
* [http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/1912/origin/170/ Jonna Louis-Jensen]

Further reading

* Louis-Jensen, Jonna (1977). "Kongesagastudier: Kompilationen Hulda-Hrokkinskinna". Reitzel, Copenhagen. ISBN 87-87504-44-8


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