ABSTRACT
Ragnars Saga lodbrókar (“The Saga of Ragnarr Hairy-breeches”), an Old Icelandic fomaldarsaga, survives in two major redactions: X, dating from around 1250, and preserved fragmentarily in AM 147 4to (ca. 1490) with Krākumāl incorporated in its text; and Y, dating from later in the 13th century, deriving largely from X, and preserved complete in NkS 1824b 4to (ca. 1400) with Krākumāl as an appendix. The existence of a third redaction, here called the “oldest” and composed independently of Krākumāl, may be deduced from the combined evidence of X and Ragnarssona patir, a mainly prose compilation preserved in Hauksbók. This oldest redaction was perhaps complete by 1230. Like Y, X appears to have been written as a sequel to VpZsumja saga, but only Y is preserved as such.
