"ORKNEYINGA SAGA"

In the introduction to Lord Ellesmere's *Guide to Northern Archæology*, p. xi., is mentioned the intended publication by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen, of a volume of historical antiquities to be called *Antiquitates Britannicæ et Hibernicæ*. In the contents of this volume is noticed the *Orkneyinga Saga*, a history of the Orkney and Zetland Isles from A.D. 865 to 1234, of which there is only the edition Copenhagen, 1780, "chiefly printed," it is said, "from a modern paper manuscript, and by no means from the celebrated Codex Flateyensis written on parchment in the four…