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HAUKSBOK CODEX ARNAMAGNAEANUS 544.4 O to
Codex Arnamagnaeanus 544.4 O to, was returned to Iceland where it at present
is to be found in The Árni Magnússon Institute, Reykjavik. The largest
collection of manuscripts from early modern period is to be found in the
National Library and the most important archivals in the National Archive
also in Reykjavik. The books which Hauks book came to involves are:
* Landnámabok(book of settlements)
* Kristni saga(the saga of Christianization)
* Fósbræðra saga (one of the so called family sagas)
* Eiriks saga rauða (the saga of Eirik the Red)
* Heimslýsing (description of the world.)
Among the rest books in Hauksbok please find Hauk's version of the Cöluspá
(the sibyl's prohecy) and the Algorismus are of large interest to scientists
all round the world as well as those '*' marked which one way or an other
can be used by scholars who want's to deepen the studies for the Greenlandic
and Vinland questions solving from artifacts found in ground as well as
artifacts found elsewhere.
In or around 1340 the book was brought back to Iceland. Probably by Hauk's
vidow who returned to Iceland short after his death. The other alternative
is that the Icelander Teit Paulsson, who in 1344 visited Norway and who
became the owner according to the written text on the back of leave 21:
"This book belongs to Teitr Palsson, if he be not robbed".
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