Melabók Version of the Landnámabók
Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
For citation: Litovskikh, Elena V. Melabók Version of the Landnámabók // Graphosphaera. 2024. Vol. 4. № 1. P. 130–199. URL: http://writing.igh.ru/index.php?id=2024-4-1-130-199
DOI: 10.32608/2782-5272-2024-4-1-130-199
Abstract: This publication contains the text, a Russian translation and an introductory article of the least known of the three elder versions of the Old Icelandic historical work ‘The Book of Settlements’ (Landnámabók) – Melabók. It has been preserved as a fragment of less than two parchment leaves in quarto from the esrly 15th century (part of the codex AM 445b 4to). Photocopies of the manuscript leaves are attached. After the translation of each of the 48 paragraphs of Melabók, tables are given with the original texts of the corresponding places in the three elder versions (Melabók is quoted after AM 445b 4to, Sturlubók after AM 107 fol, Hauksbók after AM 105 fol) with the orthography of the manuscripts preserved. Since the text of the younger version Þórðarbók is closest to Melabók, its differences from Melabók are given in footnotes. This arrangement not only allows to see those places where the versions are closest and where they diverge radically, but also to more clearly show the features of Melabók, as well as the size and most likely boundaries of the lacunae in it. Many scholars have considered Melabók to be closest to the proto-redaction of Landnámabók and the hypothetical text by Ári inn fróði Þórgilsson. The present publication shows doubtfulness of this assertion. The appendix contains a commented translation of Snorra goða ættartál, the text that immediately precedes Melabók in AM 445b 4to. Snorra goða ættartál has also never been translated into Russian.
Key words: Iceland, paleography, source criticism, genealogy, ‘The Book of Settlements’ (Landnámabók), АМ 445b 4to
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