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dc.contributor.authorAllport, Benjamin
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-31T07:46:17Z
dc.date.available2022-03-31T07:46:17Z
dc.date.created2022-01-20T15:29:14Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn1018-5011
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2988706
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherStofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðumen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse-Ikkekommersiell-DelPåSammeVilkår 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleUnearthing St Edmund: A Source for Edmund's Martyrdom in Íslendingabóken_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 Griplaen_US
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doi10.33112/gripla.32.2
dc.identifier.cristin1986498
dc.source.journalGriplaen_US
dc.source.pagenumber57-72en_US
dc.relation.projectThe Leverhulme Trust: SAS-2019-098en_US
dc.identifier.citationGripla. 2021, 32, 57-72.en_US
dc.source.volume32en_US


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