LN - my thanks for these links - very strange but I have always had the
idea that this would happen - I would get to a site I had not seen before
and would start reading -right !! and making sense of it too.
I really needed those links 
THanks very much
Kveðja
Patricia
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: llama_nom
Date: 12/08/2008 23:58:35
Subject: [norse_course] Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna (in manuscript spelling)
 
 
"Two hands, Ari Jónsson and either Jón or Tómas Arason. Friðþjófs saga
ins frœkna (AM 510 4to, ff. 91v-96r), 1550."
 
Here's a transcription of Friðþjófs saga (one of the 'fornaldarsögur'
"legendary sagas") from a 16th century manuscript. It makes a nice
introduction to manuscript spelling. Compare this with the normalised
text from Guðni Jónsson and Bjarni Vilhjálmsson's edition [
]. The question mark represents an abreviation for 'ok' / 'og' "and".
(Ignore the 'Af Upplendinga konungum' link; for some reason the
non-English letters have all been missed out, but the same text is
available correctly formatted in several places online, e.g. [
]) Get a taste for this stuff, and you can start straining your eyes
over at Saganet!
 
 
They haven't got images of this particular manuscript there yet, but
there are some later ones [
].
 
 
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