The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry

Wolf, Kirsten; Deusen, Natalie M. Van

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“…He reputedly wrote sagas about Bishop Guðmundr the Good, St Nicholas, the archangel Michael, and in all probability the B-redaction of The Saga of Saint Thorlak, as well as translating the history of King Óláfr I of Norway by Brother Gunnlaugr, and many others. Indeed, it is rarely possible to ascribe the anonymous Icelandic vernacular prose works on saints, angels, and sacred objects-there are sagas preserved on about 130 such subjects (Wolf 2013)-to individual writers, although the names of the religious poets are more often known (Wolf and Van Deusen 2017).…”

Section: The þIngeyrar Abbey Corpus: 14th-16th Centuriesmentioning

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Þingeyrar Abbey in Northern Iceland: A Benedictine Powerhouse of Cultural Heritage

Jensson

2021

Religions

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Þingeyrar Abbey was founded in 1133 and dissolved in the wake of the Lutheran Reformation (1550), to virtually disappear with time from the face of the earth. Although highly promising archeological excavations are under way, our material points of access to this important monastic foundation are still only a handful of medieval artifacts. However, throughout its medieval existence Þingeyrar Abbey was an inordinately large producer of Latin and Icelandic literature. We have the names of monastic authors, poets, translators, compilators, and scribes, who engaged creatively with such diverse subjects as Christian hagiography, contemporary history, and Norse mythology, skillfully amalgamating all of this into a coherent, imaginative whole. Thus, Þingeyrar Abbey has a prominent place in the creation and preservation of the Icelandic Eddas and Sagas that have shaped the Northern European cultural memory. Despite the dissolution of monastic libraries and wholesale destruction of Icelandic-Latin manuscripts through a mixture of Protestant zealotry and parchment reuse, philologists have been able to trace a number of surviving codices and fragments back to Þingeyrar Abbey. Ultimately, however, our primary points of access to the fascinating world of this remote Benedictine community remain immaterial, a vast corpus of medieval texts edited on the basis of manuscript copies at unknown degrees of separation from the lost originals.

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Section: The þIngeyrar Abbey Corpus: 14th-16th Centuriesmentioning

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Þingeyrar Abbey in Northern Iceland: A Benedictine Powerhouse of Cultural Heritage

Jensson

2021

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Section: The þIngeyrar Abbey Corpus: 14th-16th Centuriesmentioning

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Medieval Monasticism in Northern Europe

2021

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Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. Preface to "Medieval Monasticism in Northern Europe"This Special Issue brings together scholars from different fields of medieval studies with the goal to portray current approaches in studies on monastic houses operating in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages. By highlighting Northern Europe specifically, the issue aims to place medieval monasticism in a broader geographical and cultural context as being one of the active agents that formed the Christian worldview of the Middle Ages. The overall ambition of this Special Issue is, at the same time, to emphasize and introduce novel approaches to the reciprocal formation of the pan-European monasticism through its shifting localities and temporality. The book is addressed to scholars working with history of religion, archaeology and related disciplines.

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Christian Poetry

Wolf

2024

The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

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The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry

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Þingeyrar Abbey in Northern Iceland: A Benedictine Powerhouse of Cultural Heritage

Þingeyrar Abbey in Northern Iceland: A Benedictine Powerhouse of Cultural Heritage

Medieval Monasticism in Northern Europe

Christian Poetry

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