Bishops' sagas
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Bishops' sagas (modern Icelandic Biskupa sögur, sometimes given in Old Norse spelling as Biskupa sǫgur) are a genre of medieval Icelandic sagas, mostly thirteenth- and earlier fourteenth-century prose histories dealing with bishops of Iceland's two medieval dioceses of Skálholt and Hólar.
Sagas about Skálholt bishops
- Hungrvaka (short biographies of the first five bishops of Skálholt, 1056-1176)
- Þorláks saga helga (three redactions, including the earliest of the biskupa sögur)
- Páls saga biskups (the saga of Þorlákr's successor Páll Jónsson, d. 1211)
- Árna saga biskups (composed c. 1300 about Árni Þorláksson, d. 1298)
Two þættir are also relevant: Ísleifs þáttr biskups and Jóns þáttr Halldórssonar.
Sagas about Hólar bishops
- Jóns saga helga (about Jón Ögmundsson, 1052–1121, in several different versions)
- Guðmundar saga biskups (about Guðmundur Arason, 1161-1237, in several different versions)
- Laurentius Saga (the latest of the biskupa sögur, about Lárentíus Kálfsson, 1267-31)
Several of the Hólar sagas are associated with the North Icelandic Benedictine School which flourished in the fourteenth century.
Editions
- The principal modern edition of these sagas is Biskupa sögur, Íslenzk fornrit, 15-17 (Reykjavík: Hið Íslenzka Fornritafélag, 2002-3).
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