Codex Wormianus Explained

The Codex Wormianus or AM 242 fol. is an Icelandic vellum codex dating from the mid-14th century. It contains an edition of the Prose Edda and some additional material on poetics, including the First Grammatical Treatise. It is the only manuscript to preserve the Rígsþula.

The manuscript is believed to have been written in the Benedictine monastery Þingeyraklaustur in Þingeyrar in northern Iceland around 1350. It was obtained by the runologist Ole Worm from the Icelandic scholar Arngrímur Jónsson in 1628, according to an inscription on the first page of the work. In 1706, Árni Magnússon obtained the document from Ole Worm's nephew, Christian Worm.^[1] Today it remains part of the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection at the Arnamagnæan Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The scribe who wrote Codex Wormianus worked on a number of manuscripts, including the Stjórn codex AM 227 fol.^{[2] [3]}

References

1. Web site: AM 242 fol., Codex Wormianus . . 21 February 2015.
2. Benediktsson. Jakob. 2004. Some Observations on Stjórn and the Manuscript AM 227 fol. Gripla. 15. 17.
3. Book: Bernharðsson, Haraldur. 66 Manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Collection. The Arnamagnaean Institute, Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen; The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies; Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen. 2015. 978-87-635-4264-7. Driscoll. Matthew James. Copenhagen and Reykjavík. 158. Stjórn, the Old Testament in Old Norse. Óskarsdóttir. Svanhildur.

External links

• Online facsimile of AM 242 fol. by the University of Copenhagen.
• Text version by the Medieval Nordic Text Archive.
• The Extended Prologue to Snorri's Edda from Codex Wormianus.