Arnas Magnaeus Philologus (1663-1730): The Viking Collection, volume 20

The Icelandic scholar and antiquarian Arni Magnusson (1663-1730) - Arnas Magaeus in Latinized form - spent much of his life building up what is by common consent the single most important collection of early Scandinavian manuscripts in existence. The collection, now divided between Copenhagen and Reykjavik, comprises nearly 3,000 items, with the earliest dating from the 12th century. The majority of these are from Arni's native Iceland, but there are also many important Norwegian, Danish, a...