Unearthing St Edmund: A Source for Edmund's Martyrdom in Íslendingabók
In Ari fróði Þorgilsson’s Íslendingabók, the settlement of Iceland is said to have first begun from Norway in 870, the year that “Ívarr, son of Ragnarr loðbrók, had St Edmund, king of the English, killed.” He attributes his knowledge of the date of this martyrdom to a mysterious “saga” of St Edmund,...
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ftunivbergen:oai:bora.uib.no:11250/2988706 2023-05-15T16:47:11+02:00 Unearthing St Edmund: A Source for Edmund's Martyrdom in Íslendingabók Allport, Benjamin 2021 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2988706 https://doi.org/10.33112/gripla.32.2 eng eng Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum The Leverhulme Trust: SAS-2019-098 urn:issn:1018-5011 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2988706 https://doi.org/10.33112/gripla.32.2 cristin:1986498 Gripla. 2021, 32, 57-72. Navngivelse-Ikkekommersiell-DelPåSammeVilkår 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.no Copyright 2021 Gripla Gripla 57-72 32 Journal article Peer reviewed 2021 ftunivbergen https://doi.org/10.33112/gripla.32.2 2023-03-14T17:38:45Z In Ari fróði Þorgilsson’s Íslendingabók, the settlement of Iceland is said to have first begun from Norway in 870, the year that “Ívarr, son of Ragnarr loðbrók, had St Edmund, king of the English, killed.” He attributes his knowledge of the date of this martyrdom to a mysterious “saga” of St Edmund, the identity of which has long been debated. This note considers the various alternatives put forth by previous researchers and concludes that the most likely candidate for this saga is in fact a composite of two texts, Abbo of Fleury’s Passio Sancti Eadmundi and Hermannus the Archdeacon’s De miraculis Sancti Eadmundi. These texts are known to have been bound together in at least one manuscript from the early twelfth century. It is argued that a similar manuscript may have circulated in Iceland and was used to inform several other Old Icelandic texts composed over the following two centuries. publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University of Bergen: Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA-UiB) Ari ENVELOPE(147.813,147.813,59.810,59.810) Norway Gripla 32 57 72 |
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In Ari fróði Þorgilsson’s Íslendingabók, the settlement of Iceland is said to have first begun from Norway in 870, the year that “Ívarr, son of Ragnarr loðbrók, had St Edmund, king of the English, killed.” He attributes his knowledge of the date of this martyrdom to a mysterious “saga” of St Edmund, the identity of which has long been debated. This note considers the various alternatives put forth by previous researchers and concludes that the most likely candidate for this saga is in fact a composite of two texts, Abbo of Fleury’s Passio Sancti Eadmundi and Hermannus the Archdeacon’s De miraculis Sancti Eadmundi. These texts are known to have been bound together in at least one manuscript from the early twelfth century. It is argued that a similar manuscript may have circulated in Iceland and was used to inform several other Old Icelandic texts composed over the following two centuries. publishedVersion |
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