Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction xiii
5. A Note On References To Editions And Manuscripts In This Book xxiii
6. Abbrevations xxv
7. Whose Njála? Njáls Saga Editions And Textual Variance In The Oldest Manuscripts 1
8. Collaborative Manuscript Production And The Case Of Reykjabók: Paleographical And Multispectral Analysis 29
9. Gráskinna: Material Aspects Of A Pocket, Patchwork Njála 55
10. Sveinsbók: A Reexamination Of A Fragment Of Njáls Saga 87
11. Copying Njáls Saga Into One’S Own Dialect Linguistic Variation In Six Fourteenth-Century Manuscripts 115
12. The Historical Present Tense In The Earliest Textual Transmission Of Njáls Saga An Example Of Synchronic Linguistic Variation In Fourteenth-Century Icelandic Njáls Saga Manuscripts 149
13. Njáls Saga Stemmas, Old And New 179
14. The Postmedieval Production And Dissemination Of Njáls Saga Manuscripts 203
15. “Njáls Saga Er Þetta. Loft Ur Hefur Lesið Mig” Readership And Reception Of Njáls Saga: A Selection Of Marginal Notes And Paratextual Features 231
16. Creating In Color: Illustrations Of Njáls Saga In A Nineteenth-Century Icelandic Paper Manuscript 257
17. Þorsteinn Árnason Surmeli University Of Iceland 283
18. A Key To The Nicknames Of Njáls Saga Manuscripts 293
19. Bibliography 295
20. Index Of Manuscripts 315
21. Index Of Works, Personal Names And Place Names 319