New Studies in the Manuscript Tradition of "Njáls saga": The "historia mutila of Njála"

List of Illustrations vii
Introduction / Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir xiii
A Note on References to Editions and Manuscripts in this Book xxiii
Abbreviations xxv
Whose \'Njála\'? \'Njáls saga\' Editions and Textual Variance in the Oldest Manuscripts / Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir and Emily Lethbridge 1
Collaborative Manuscript Production and the Case of Reykjabók: Paleographical and Multispectral Analysis / Beeke Stegmann 29
Gráskinna: Material Aspects of a Pocket, Patchwork \'Njála\' / Emily Lethbridge 55
Sveinsbók: A Reexamination of a Fragment of \'Njáls saga\' / Bjarni Gunnar Ásgeirsson 87
Copying \'Njáls saga\' into One’s Own Dialect: Linguistic Variation in Six Fourteenth-Century Manuscripts / Haraldur Bernharðsson 115
The Historical Present Tense in the Earliest Textual Transmission of \'Njáls saga\': An Example of Synchronic Linguistic Variation in Fourteenth-Century Icelandic \'Njáls saga\' Manuscripts / Ludger Zeevaert 149
\'Njáls saga\' Stemmas, Old and New / Alaric Hall and Ludger Zeevaert 179
The Postmedieval Production and Dissemination of \'Njáls saga\' Manuscripts / Margrét Eggertsdóttir 203
\'Njals saga er þetta. Loft ur hefur lesið mig.\' Readership and
Reception of \'Njáls saga\': A Selection of Marginal Notes and Paratextual Features / Susanne M. Arthur 231
Creating in Color: Illustrations of \'Njáls saga\' in a Nineteenth-Century Icelandic Paper Manuscript / Þorsteinn Árnason Surmeli 257
The Manuscripts of \'Njáls saga\' / Susanne M. Arthur and Ludger Zeevaert 283
A Key to the Nicknames of \'Njáls saga\' Manuscripts 293
Bibliography 295
Index of Manuscripts 315
Index of Works, Personal Names and Place Names 319