“Saint-Making in Early Iceland”
ABSTRACT: This article examines briefly the lives of Iceland’s earliest candidates for canonization—the Norwegian king, Óláfr Tryggvason, and, more particularly, the Icelandic bishops, Þorlákr Þórhallsson, Jón Ögmundarson and Guðmundr Arason—and discusses some of the facts that led to their acceptan...
| Published in: | Scandinavian-Canadian Studies |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English French |
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University of Alberta Library
2007
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan19 https://doaj.org/article/96c790d07dfd45f0926524cc558cf406 |
| Summary: | ABSTRACT: This article examines briefly the lives of Iceland’s earliest candidates for canonization—the Norwegian king, Óláfr Tryggvason, and, more particularly, the Icelandic bishops, Þorlákr Þórhallsson, Jón Ögmundarson and Guðmundr Arason—and discusses some of the facts that led to their acceptance or rejection as saints of the Roman Catholic Church. |
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