The manuscript might have been written in Iceland and soon moved into Norway[2] or have been composed in Norway.[3] It was found in Bergen in 1550 and brought to Denmark before 1600, when it was acquired by the collector Otto Friis, from whom it takes its name.[3] It then came into the possession of Jens Rosenkrantz before being bought in 1695 by Árni Magnússon. The latter gave it at his death (1730) to the University of Copenhagen.[4]
Facsimiles and transcriptions
Codex Frisianus: (Sagas of the kings of Norway): MS. no. 45 fol. in the Arnamagnæan Collection in the University Library of Copenhagen, ed. by Halldór Hermannsson, Corpus codicum Islandicorum medii aevi, 4 (Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1932) (facsimile)
Codex Frisianus: en samling af norske kongesagaer: udgiven efter offentlig foranstaltning, ed. by C. R. Unger (Christiania: Malling, 1871)[5]
Codex Membranaceus Arnamagnæanus nr. 45 in folio ex nomine quondam possessoris Ottonis Frisii dictus Codex Frisianus, ed. by P. Petersen (Christiania, 1864)
References
^Thunberg, Carl L., Särkland och dess källmaterial [Serkland and its source material], (Göteborgs universitet. CLTS, 2011), pp. 61-67. ISBN978-91-981859-3-5.
^Andersson, Theodore M., Gade, Kari Ellen, Morkinskinna: the earliest Icelandic chronicle of the Norwegian kings (1030-1157), Islandica, LI (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), p. 8. ISBN0-8014-3694-X
^ abHollander, Lee M., Snorri Sturluson. Heimskringla: history of the kings of Norway (Austin: University of Texas Press for the American-Scandinavian Foundation, 2005), p. xxiv. ISBN0-292-73061-6
