ABSTRACT

The history of Denmark and Norway is a story of changing relationships with varying degrees of closeness. The work to properly catalogue the Norwegian and Danish manuscript fragments is work-in-progress, and it is at the moment not possible to systematically go through and match fragments in the Norwegian and the Danish National Archives. The envelope in the National Archives of Norway labelled 'Lat. fragm. 26' contains two single fragments once used to bind papers from Trondheim for the year 1629. The chapter presents some manuscripts that from a Norwegian perspective fall into the category 'suspicious,' not only because of their size, but also for their relationship with fragments in other Danish or Swedish collections. To start with twelfth-century Lund, it seems clear that further investigation into certain palaeographic characteristics found in Lund fragments and manuscripts may lead to further identifications and new knowledge about the influence of Scandinavia's first arch see on the rest of Scandinavia.