Saints' sagas
Saints' sagas (Old Norse heilagra manna sögur) are a genre of Old Norse sagas comprising the prose hagiography of medieval western Scandinavia.
The corpus of such sagas and their manuscript attestations was surveyed by Ole Widding, Hans Bekker-Nielsen, L. K. Shook in 1963.[1] Their work revealed over 100 different saints' lives, mostly based on Latin sources. Few are of Icelandic saints, with only Jón Ögmundarson (d. 1121), Þorlákr Þórhallsson (d. 1193), and Guðmundr Arason (d. 1237) being candidates.[2]
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- ↑ Ole Widding, Hans Bekker-Nielsen, L. K. Shook, 'The Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose: a Handlist', Mediaeval Studies, 25 (1963), 294-337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.MS.2.306819.
- ↑ 'Saints' Lives', in Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia, ed. by Phillip Pulsiano (New York: Garland, 1993).
