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Völsunga saga and Ragnars saga, two fornaldarsögur dealing with the legendary Germanic and Danish... more Völsunga saga and Ragnars saga, two fornaldarsögur dealing with the legendary Germanic and Danish past, are placed side-by-side in Copenhagen, MS NKS 1824 b 4 to , a manuscript of 80 leaves written by an Icelandic scribe (perhaps in Norway), and dating to c. 1400. 1 That they should be regarded as separate sagas is indicated by the large illustrated initial H for ³Heimir´ on fol. 51r, and a small, extremely faded and hard-to-read title: Sagha Raghnars lodbrokar of roughly the same size as the chapter headings within the sagas. 2 Moreover the transition between the two sagas (fols. 50v-51) is written in a different hand from the rest of the manuscript, (one which is also responsible for 6 lines on fol. 19r). This seems suggestive, and I shall return to this crucial transition late

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