Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiv

List of Abbreviations

pp xv-xvi

Introduction: The Splendor of the Saints

pp 1-8

Rannsǫkun Heilagra Bóka: The Search for Holy Books

pp 9-10

1 - Medieval Icelandic Hagiography: The State of the Art

pp 11-28

2 - An Old Norse Adaptation of an All Saints Sermon by Maurice de Sully

pp 29-60

3 - The Tuscan Provenance of Framfǫr Maríu

pp 61-96

Heilagir Byskupar: Holy Bishops

pp 97-98

4 - Latin Oratory at the Edge of the World: The Fragments of Gizurr Hallsson’s *Gesta Scalotensis ecclesie presulum and the *Vita sancti Thorlaci

pp 99-134

5 - Three Scenes from Jóns saga helga: A Typological Mode of Thought in Early Icelandic Hagiography

pp 135-158

6 - Lárentíuss saga byskups: Between History and Historiography

pp 159-174

7 - Remembering Saints and Bishops in Medieval Iceland

pp 175-194

Heilagir Karlar ok Englar: Holy Men and Angels

pp 195-196

8 - Þat vóro lavg munka: A Reading of Benedikts saga in Light of the Regula sancti Benedicti

pp 197-228

9 - The Lore of St Dominic in Medieval Iceland and Norway

pp 229-248

10 - The Veneration of St Michael in Medieval Iceland

pp 249-276

Heilagar Meyjar: Holy Maidens

pp 277-278

11 - Katrínarhólar: St Catherine’s Hills, Milk, and Mount Sinai

pp 279-306

12 - St Agnes of Rome in Late Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Verse

pp 307-324

Bibliography

pp 325-362

Index of Manuscripts

pp 363-366

General Index

pp 367-382

Studies in Old Norse Literature

pp 383-383