The Flatey Book, (Flateyjarbók; lit. `Flat-island book`) is an important medieval Icelandic manuscript. It is also known as GkS 1005 fol. and by the Latin name Codex Flateyensis. == Description == The Flatey Book is the largest medieval Icelandic manuscript, comprising 225 written and illustrated vellum leaves. It contains mostly sagas of the N.....
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(from the article `Scandinavian literature`) ...Interest in earlier manuscripts continued, and many 14th- and 15th-century manuscript collections of 13th-century material were made. The most ...
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One of the largest and most important of Icelandic manuscripts, written about 1390, now housed in Reykjavik. It contains the texts of a number of important kings'
sagas, including one about St Olaf,...
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