Peel, Christine Ingegerd; (1998) An edition of Guta saga with introduction, translation, commentary and glossary. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D.), University College London (United Kingdom).

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The following thesis is an edition of the text of Guta saga found in the fourteenth-century manuscript of Guta lag. It is held in Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm and designated B64. In the manuscript the text covers the last eight leaves. It represents the only complete version of the text in Gutnish, the medieval language of Gotland. The Introduction contains a section on the historical background to the text and a discussion of the following: preservation, content, sources (both written and oral), date and place of composition, authorship, historical value, language and previous editions of the text. The principles of the current edition are described. The text of the manuscript is normalized and contains a number of emendations, which are signalled in footnotes. Following the text is an English translation which corresponds in pagination with the text. The Commentary discusses the language and background of individual elements of the text, referred to by page and line number. The notes draw on existing knowledge and place the text in historical context. The Glossary lists each instance of each word in the text, in unnormalised form under a normalised head-word, with page and line number. Included are a map of Gotland, showing the places named in the text (underlined) and other places mentioned in the Introduction and Commentary, a map of the Baltic area, and a reproduction of the first page of a facsimile of the manuscript. The Bibliography gives the source of all references in the Introduction and Commentary, together with abbreviations used. The Index lists the proper names occurring in the text.

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