[Snorri Sturluson]

small 4to (191 x 155mm.), 42 leaves, manuscript in Icelandic with Latin translation and commentary [by Jón Ólafsson from Grunnavík], nineteenth-century maroon cloth, library labels to binding, scattered staining and browning, leaves trimmed with small loss of marginal notes, edges worn, binding sunned 

Sir Thomas Phillipps, sale in these rooms, "Bibliotheca Phillippica - Catalogue of English, French, Greek & Icelandic Manuscripts", 28 June 1977, lot 4994

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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The manuscript is in the hand of Jón Ólafsson from Grunnavík (1705-1779), employed as an amanuensis by Arní Magnusson and later first stipendiary of the Arnamagnæan Foundation. The Icelandic poem is copied from the fourteenth-century Codex Wormianus, which is part of the Manuscript Collection at the Arnamagnæan Institute in Copenhagen.

Háttalykill or Háttalykill inn forni, is an Old Norse poem in the Orkneyinga Saga, attributed to Rǫgnvaldr Kali Kolsson (c. 1103-1158), Earl of Orkney and Hallr Þórarinsson (12th century), bard.