Saints and their Legacies in Medieval Iceland

KIRSTEN WOLF is the Birgit Baldwin Professor in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. KIRSTEN WOLF is the Birgit Baldwin Professor in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. DARIO BULLITTA is Assistant Professor in Germanic Philology in the Department of Humanities at the University of Turin. DARIO BULLITTA is Assistant Professor in Germanic Philology in the Department of Humanities at the University of Turin.

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations 1 Introduction: The Splendor of the SaintsDARIO BULLITTA Rannsǫkun heilagra bóka: The Search for Holy Books2 Medieval Icelandic Hagiography: The State of the ArtKIRSTEN WOLF3 An Old Norse Adaptation of an All Saints Sermon by Maurice de SullySTEPHEN PELLE4 The Tuscan Provenance of Framfǫr MaríuDARIO BULLITTA Heilagir byskupar: Holy Bishops5 Latin Oratory at the Edge of the World: The Fragments of Gizurr Hallsson's *Gesta Scalotensis ecclesie presulum and the *Vita sancti ThorlaciGOTTSKÁLK JENSSON6 Three Scenes from Jóns saga helga: A Typological Mode of Thought in Early Icelandic HagiographyHAKI ANTONSSON7 Lárentíus saga byskups: Between History and HistoriographyFULVIO FERRARI8 Remembering Saints and Bishops in Medieval IcelandÁSDÍS EGILSDÓTTIRHeilagir karlar ok englar: Holy Men and Angels9 Þat vóro lavg munka: A Reading of Benedikts saga in Light of the Regula sancti BenedictiMAURO CAMIZ10 The Lore of St Dominic in Medieval Iceland and NorwaySIMONETTA BATTISTA11 The Veneration of St Michael in Medieval IcelandMARGARET CORMACK Heilagar meyjar: Holy Maidens12 Katrínarhólar: St Catherine's Hills, Milk, and Mount SinaiHELGI ÞORLÁKSSON13 St Agnes of Rome in Late Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic VerseNATALIE M. VAN DEUSEN BibliographyIndex of Manuscripts General Index

This collection, though, certainly counts as fine work: it is a wonderful testimony tothe vibrancy of recent research on the cults of saints in Iceland and its potential for giving usnew insights into literary culture both in the early twelfth century and into the Reformationand beyond.