“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...

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Published in:Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
Main Author: Bernadine McCreesh
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
French
Published: University of Alberta Library 2007
Subjects:
History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan19
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