Monastic Musical Fragments from Iceland

• Published in: Religions
• Main Author: Gisela Attinger
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: liturgical music; monastic institutions; St Olav; Iceland; Sweden; Middle Ages; St. Olav
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12060416

Little has survived from medieval liturgical books in the Nordic countries other than fragments. It is often difficult, if not impossible, to state their exact provenance, but the contents sometimes indicate that they once belonged to a monastic institution. The article presents some of these source...