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Beginning with an account of Alexander the Great’s conquests, it proceeds to cover around 220 years of Jewish history from Antiochus IV Epiphanes’s accession in 175 BCE to Pontius Pilate becoming procurator of Judaea in 26 CE.[1][2] The main manuscript source for Gy\u00f0inga saga concludes with an epilogue which attributes its translation into Old Norse to Brandr J\u00f3nsson (d. 1264), bishop of H\u00f3lar. In this manuscript Gy\u00f0inga saga follows Alexanders saga, which is also attributed to Brandr J\u00f3nsson.[3][1][4] The saga is untitled in AM 226 fol; the name Gy\u00f0inga saga appears to date from the 19th century. \u00c1rni Magn\u00fasson referred to it as both ‘Historia Judaica’ and ‘Historia Macchabeorum’.[1]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsEtymology[edit]Preservation and authorship[edit]Contents[edit]Further reading[edit]References[edit]Etymology[edit]Gy\u00f0inga is the Old Norse genitive plural of Gy\u00f0ingr, which is derived from the Old Norse word gu\u00f0 (“God”), with the suffix -ingr (a noun suffix used to refer to people associated with another noun). Thus it could be literally translated as “God-people” or “God-followers.”It is the source of the modern Icelandic word for a Jew, gy\u00f0ingur, and the Faroese word g\u00fd\u00f0ingur.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Preservation and authorship[edit]Gy\u00f0inga saga is preserved in five vellum manuscripts and sixteen paper manuscripts, of which seven have independent value.[1][2] The saga is preserved intact in AM 226 fol from 1350\u20131360. However, comparison with the older fragments AM 655 XXV 4to and AM 238 XVII fol shows that Gy\u00f0inga saga was originally longer, and that the version in AM 226 fol has been reduced in length by around one third.[1][5]Gy\u00f0inga saga concludes with the following epilogue:The holy priest Jerome translated this book from Hebrew into Latin, but it was translated from Latin into Norse by the priest Brandr J\u00f3nsson, who was later bishop of H\u00f3lar; and [Brandr] then [translated] Alexander the Great at the behest of the honorable lord, Lord King Magnus, son of King H\u00e1kon the Old.[4]As Brandr died in 1264, this is as late as the saga could have been originally compiled, if it was indeed written by him. This date can be pushed back to 1263 as the epilogue refers to Brandr as ‘priest’ not ‘bishop’; he served as bishop of H\u00f3lar from 1263 until his death the following year. Magnus Haakonsson held the title of king from 1257. This places the authorship of Gy\u00f0inga saga sometime between 1257 and 1263, if the epilogue’s attribution is correct.[6]Contents[edit]In AM 226 fol, Gy\u00f0inga saga is split into 39 chapters; these fall into 3 sections based on different sources. The first 21 chapters are based on 1 Maccabees, with additional material taken from 2 Maccabees and Petrus Comestor’s Historia scholastica. Chapters 22\u201332 are based on the Historia scholastica. The final section, chapters 33\u201338 are based on a precursor to Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend.[1] This final section gives an apocryphal account of the lives of Pontius Pilate and Judas Iscariot as well as a short version of Jewish history from Caligula becoming emperor in 37 CE to the death of Herod Agrippa in 44 CE.[2] Towards the end of the saga, some of its content over laps with that of R\u00f3mverja saga.[7]Despite being based on Biblical sources, Gy\u00f0inga saga plays down the moral and religious aspects of its sources and is presented as a work of historiography.[8]Further reading[edit]Wolf, Kirsten (1995). Gy\u00f0inga saga. Stofnun \u00c1rna Magn\u00fassonar \u00e1 \u00cdslandi.References[edit]^ a b c d e f Kirsten, Wolf (1993). “Gy\u00f0inga saga”.  In Pulsiano, Phillip; Wolf, Kirsten (eds.). Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland. pp.\u00a0253\u2013254. ISBN\u00a00824047877.^ a b c Wolf, Kirsten (1990). “The sources of Gy\u00f0inga saga”. Arkiv f\u00f6r Nordisk Filologi. 105: 140.^ “Stj\u00f3rn mm. | Manuscript | Handrit.is”. handrit.is. Archived from the original on 21 January 2016. Retrieved 2019-10-26.^ a b Wolf, Kirsten (1988). “Gydinga Saga, Alexanders Saga, and Bishop Brande J\u00f3nsson”. Scandinavian Studies. 60 (3): 371\u2013400. ISSN\u00a00036-5637. JSTOR\u00a040918962.^ Wolf, Kirsten (1990). “The sources of Gy\u00f0inga saga”. Arkiv f\u00f6r Nordisk Filologi. 105: 141.^ Wolf, Kirsten (1988). “Gydinga Saga, Alexanders Saga, and Bishop Brande J\u00f3nsson”. Scandinavian Studies. 60 (3): 371\u2013372. ISSN\u00a00036-5637. JSTOR\u00a040918962.^ W\u00fcrth, Stefanie (2005). “Historiography and Pseudo-History”.  In McTurk, Rory (ed.). A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture. Malden, Oxford, Victoria: Blackwell Publishing. pp.\u00a0166.^ W\u00fcrth, Stefanie (2005). “Historiography and Pseudo-History”.  In McTurk, Rory (ed.). A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture. 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