The sagas and conversion history: Kristni sagaand other texts

• Main Author: Grønlie, Siân
• Other Authors: Skandinavistik / Universität Tübingen
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Tübingen 2004
• Subjects: Saga; Island; 839; Kristni saga; historicity; Norway; Ari; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/46216; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-10780

Different attitudes have been expressed about the historicity of Kristni saga since the saga was edited and translated into Latin in 1773. For historians up until the mid-twentieth century, it was a reliable source for conversion history, and its account of the missions to Iceland was used frequentl...