CONTENTS: Preface to second edition; Introduction; Manuscript & provenance; Ágrip's sources; Style & language; Editorial principles; Orthography & morphology; Punctuation, chapter division etc; Previous editions & translations; A note on the translation; Text & translation; Notes to the translation; Bibliography & abbreviations; Index of personal names; Index of place-names; Index of other names.
M. J. Driscoll, D.Phil. (Oxon), is senior lecturer in Old Norse philology at Copenhagen University and head of the Arnamagnæan Institute. His research interests include manuscript and textual studies, particularly in the area of late pre-modern Icelandic.