Codex Scardensis was likely written in around 1360 at the monastery at Helgafell for Ormr Snorrason, a lawman and chief who inherited the estate of Skarð in 1322. Folio 94v. of the manuscript contains a note which records that in 1401 Ormr Snorrason gave and delivered the manuscript to the church at Skarð. However, a document from 1397 notes that the ownership of the manuscript was split between the church at Skarð and a resident farmer. Ormr Snorrason's donation in 1401 appears to have been of his share of the manuscript.