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Title:Development of Flateyjarbók, Iceland & the Norwegian Dynastic Crisis of 1389
Series:(The Viking Collection, Volume 15)
Author:Elizabeth Ashman Rowe
ISBN:8778389275 : 9788778389275
Format:Hardback
Pages:486
Weight: .866 Kg.
Published:University Press of Southern Denmark - December 2005
List Price: 27.1 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:European history: c500 to c1500: Norway: Iceland


Flateyjarbók is the name given to 'GKS 1005 fol.', a manuscript now housed at the Árni Magnússon Institute (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi) in Reykjavík, Iceland. It is the largest of the extant medieval Icelandic manuscripts and is beautifully illuminated with historical initials. In its original form it contained 202 leaves, with the text laid out in two columns to the page. It is so well preserved that not a single leaf is missing and each word is still legible. The manuscript was commissioned by Jón Hákonarson (1350-1416), a wealthy farmer living at Víðidalstunga in the northern Iceland, and it was written in the area, most likely at Víðidalstunga or at the nearby monastery of þingeyrar.