Lögmannsannáll

Lögmannsannáll (from Old Norse: Governors' Annals[1]) is among the most well-known of the medieval Icelandic annals and is preserved in the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík[2] as manuscript AM 420 B, (c. 1362–1390).[3] Lögmannsannáll was primarily written by Einarr Hafliðason. Its content starts with the martyrdom of Saint Peter and Paul the Apostle, and continues until the last entry, dated 1361, which appears to depart from the original author's handwriting, with another writer updating the annals through 1380, possibly from Hólar.[4] In the next four years, from 1381 to 1384, a third writer appeared and through his style it can be deduced that the manuscript was transferred to the north, to Skálholt. The entries end in 1430.[5]

Nýi Annáll

Nýi Annáll, which literally means New Annals, is the last fragment of Lögmannsannáll, which corresponds to the entries from 1393 to 1430. This is considered the last of the Icelandic annals and the only one written in the 15th century. Nýi Annáll does not appear in manuscript AM 420 B, but in a copy of the 17th century AM 240 C.[6]

References

  1. ^ Beamish, North Ludlow; Rafn, Carl Christian (1841). The discovery of America by the Northmen, in the tenth century. University of California. London : T. and W. Boone. p. 147.
  2. ^ Handrit.is: AM 420 b 4to
  3. ^ The Norwegian domination and the Norse world, c.1100-c.1400. Trondheim, Norway: Tapir Academic Press. 2010. p. 177. ISBN 978-82-519-2563-1.
  4. ^ Rowe, Elizabeth Ashman (2010-11-06). "The Flateyjarbôk Annals as a Historical Source". Scandinavian Journal of History. 27 (4): 239. doi:10.1080/03468750216054. ISSN 0346-8755.
  5. ^ Storm, Gustav (1977). Islandske Annaler indtil 1578 (in Danish). Norsk historisk kjeldeskrift-institutt. pp. xxii. ISBN 978-82-7061-192-8.
  6. ^ Sigurdson, Erika Ruth (November 11, 2011). "The Church in Fourteenth-Century Iceland: Ecclesiastical Administration, Literacy, and the Formation of an Elite Clerical Identity" (PDF). The University of Leeds, Institute for Medieval Studies: 69. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-21.

Bibliography

Eldbjørg Haug, The Icelandic Annals as Historical Sources, 1997