Unearthing St Edmund: A Source for Edmund's Martyrdom in Íslendingabók

• Published in: Gripla
• Main Author: Allport, Benjamin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum 2021
• Subjects: Ari; Norway; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2988706; https://doi.org/10.33112/gripla.32.2

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,...