The Burning of Bishop Adam: perspectives of a murder on the Norse-Scottish border
In 1222, Adam, bishop of Caithness, was murdered by a group of Caithness landholders. Although it appears in a fourteenth century manuscript, the Old Norse text Brenna Adams Byskups (The Burning of Bishop Adam) originated in Iceland in the 1230s. It provides a Caithness-based perspective on Adam’s d...
| Published in: | The Innes Review |
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh University Press
2021
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/inr.2021.0301 https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full-xml/10.3366/inr.2021.0301 |