2. Fagrskinna (Fsk)

Stemma

Manuscripts: A class

Fsk:          lost vellum (c. 1350-1400). Three copies by Ásgeir Jónsson (c. 1675-1700): a) FskAˣ: AM 303 4°ˣ b) 52ˣ:       AM 52 folˣ c) 301ˣ:     AM 301 4°ˣ.

Manuscripts: B class

The original burned in the fire of Copenhagen in 1728. One fragment remains:

NRA51: NRA 51 (c. 1240-63). Three copies were made before the fire: a) FskBˣ: OsloUB 371 folˣ (c. 1700; a fairly faithful copy by Ásgeir Jónsson) b) 51ˣ:       AM 51 folˣ c) 302ˣ:     AM 302 4°ˣ.

Editions

Fsk 1902-3, ÍF 29 (Ágr and Fsk).

Poetry

The Fsk text covering the years 1035-1177 spans the reigns of Magnús inn góði (Mgóð) and Magnús Erlingsson (MErl) and contains a total of 107 stanzas, most of which are also contained in Mork, Hkr and H-Hr. There can be no doubt that the author of Fsk knew the no longer extant archetype of the Mork redaction (*Oldest Morkinskinna, *ÆMork, see below), and that, for this part of Fsk, he availed himself selectively of the poetic material in that compendium (see Indrebø 1917 and Bjarni Einarsson in ÍF 29, ci-cxix; see also Fidjestøl 1982, 10 and Andersson and Gade 2000, 25-57). The last stanza in Fsk (ESk Eystdr 2) describes the death of King Eysteinn Haraldsson (d. 1157).

[15] For a full discussion of Fsk, see Introduction to SkP I.

References

1. Bibliography
2. Andersson, Theodore M. and Kari Ellen Gade, trans. 2000. Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030-1157). Islandica 51. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
3. Fsk 1902-3 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1902-3. Fagrskinna: Nóregs kononga tal. SUGNL 30. Copenhagen: Møller.
4. SkP I = Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Ed. Diana Whaley. 2012.
5. Internal references
6. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Heimskringla’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=4> (accessed 29 November 2024)
7. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Fagrskinna’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=56> (accessed 29 November 2024)
8. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Hulda-Hrokkinskinna’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=84> (accessed 29 November 2024)
9. (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Morkinskinna’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=87> (accessed 29 November 2024)
10. (forthcoming), ‘ Heimskringla, Magnúss saga Erlingssonar’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=146> (accessed 29 November 2024)
11. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Eysteinsdrápa 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 560-1.