handritið

Handritið, also known as the Codex Regius, is a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript that is considered one of the most important historical documents in Icelandic literature. It is a collection of Icelandic sagas, poems, and legal texts, and is one of the oldest and most complete surviving sources of Old Norse literature. The manuscript was written by a scribe named Kolbeinn Flosason in the early 13th century, and is believed to have been compiled from earlier manuscripts. It is named after its owner, King Christian IV of Denmark, who acquired it in 1627. The Codex Regius is housed in the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is a valuable resource for scholars studying the history and culture of Iceland and the Viking Age. The manuscript is written in Old Icelandic, a form of Old Norse, and includes a wide range of texts, including the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda, the Sagas of Icelanders, and the Law Code of Iceland. The Codex Regius is an important historical document that provides insight into the literary and cultural traditions of medieval Iceland.