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Add. MS 6121
British Library
London
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United Kingdom
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77v-87r
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Hugsvinnsmál, a verse translation of the Disticha Catonis
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Icelandic (DC)
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Hugsvinnsmál (per Skaldic Project)
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c. 1760
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c.1760
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"The volume appears to have been copied for Eggert Ólafsson, the poet and antiquary, and author of travels in Iceland [...], who was chief judge of South and East Iceland in 1767, and was drowned with his wife and family in Breiđafjörđ in West Iceland in 1768. [...] The MS. was presented to the British Museum by Sir Joseph Banks, Bart." (per Catalogue Romances British Museum)
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Bibliography:
Skaldic Project (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/skaldic/db.php?id=372&if=default&table=mss) | Catalogue Romances British Museum, vol. 1, pp. 304-307.
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