Morkinskinna is an Old Norse kings' saga, relating the history of Norwegian kings from approximately 1025 to 1157. The saga was written in Iceland around 1220, and has been preserved in a manuscript from around 1275. The name Morkinskinna means "mouldy parchment" and is originally the name of the manuscript book in which the saga has been preserved. The book itself, GKS 1009 fol, is currently in the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen. It was brought to Denmark from Iceland by Þormóður Torfason (Tormod Torfæus) in 1662. The saga was published in English in 2000 in a translation by Theodore M. Andersson and Kari Ellen Gade.<ref>Andersson, Theodore Murdock and Kari Ellen Gade (trs.). Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings. 2000.</ref> Contents The saga starts in 1025 or 1026 and in its received form, ends suddenly in 1157, after the death of King Sigurðr II. Originally, the work may have been longer, possibly continuing until 1177, when the narratives of Fagrskinna and Heimskringla, which use Morkinskinna as one of their sources, end. Apart from giving the main saga, the text is lavishly interspersed with citations from skaldic verse (about 270 stanzas) and includes a number of short Icelandic tales known as þættir. The following is an overview of the chapters in Morkinskinna, chronologically subdivided by the reigns of the kings of Norway: Magnús I (r. 1035-1047) 1. Here begins the saga of Magnús and Haraldr [his uncle] 2. Concerning Sveinn 3. Concerning King Magnús's feasts 4. Concerning King Magnús 5. Concerning the declaration of war against Magnús and concerning the Duke 6. King Magnús in Jutland 7. King Magnús's stay in Jutland 8. How King Haraldr set sail when he came to Skáney 9. Concerning Haraldr's travels 10. Concerning Norðbrikt [=Haraldr]'s travels 11. Concerning a declaration of war 12. Concerning the raids of Norðbrikt and jarl Gyrgir 13. Haraldr's journey to Jerusalem 14. Concerning King Magnús's meeting with Haraldr 15. The slandering of Þorkell 16. Concerning King Magnús 17. How King Magnús bestowed a jarldom on Ormr 18. On the dispute between the kings 19. Concerning the kings 20. Concerning Þorsteinn Hallsson 21. Concerning the kings 22. The good counsels of King Haraldr 23. Concerning King Magnús and Margrét 24. Hreiðars þáttr ["The tale of Hreiðarr"] 25. How the kings harried and how the king's mother granted a captive his life 26. King Magnús dies [1047] 27. Haraldr's