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North Icelandic Benedictine School

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21: 54:), with Latinate grammar, Latin and Low German loan-words; and, unusually for Icelandic sagas, which are usually anonymous, a close-knit network of identifiable authors (sometimes self-identified, sometimes named by others). The school is associated particularly with the Northern Icelandic Benedictine monasteries of 290:
Sigurdson, Erika Ruth, 'The Church in Fourteenth-Century Iceland: Ecclesiastical Administration, Literacy, and the Formation of an Elite Clerical Identity' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, 2011), pp. 54–56
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Among the various manuscripts which can be associated with the movement, the mid-fourteenth-century AM 657 a-b 4to is a good example: it is the oldest manuscript to contain the text of Bergr's
46:. This movement is characterised by an elaborate rhetorical style new to Icelandic saga-writing at the time (known in English as the 'florid style', Scandinavian as the 204: 148: 40:) is a fourteenth-century Icelandic literary movement, the lives, activities, and relationships of whose members are attested particularly by 295: 271: 309: 160: 258:, 3 vols, ed. by Guðrún Nordal, Sverrir Tómasson and Vésteinn Ólason (Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 1992-), I, pp. 265-418. 71: 166: 108: 81: 142: 102: 130: 124: 97: 67: 20: 188: 173: 136: 86: 220: 214: 152:. He or his associates may also have composed a substantial number of other sagas, such as 59: 275: 182: 42: 267: 195: 119: 303: 230: 154: 113: 25:
Relationships between the major members of the North Icelandic Benedictine School
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The principal authors and works associated with this literary movement are:
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Sverrir Tómasson, 'Trúarbókmenntir í lausu máli á síðmiðöld‘, in
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http://handrit.is/is/manuscript/view/da/AM04-0657-a-b
208:; it also contains stories miracles performed by the 128:(a translation of the life of St Nicholas) and 8: 247: 15: 7: 293:http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2610/ 176:, translator of the miracle-story 34:North Icelandic Benedictine School 14: 106:, and possibly the translator of 19: 1: 66:, and with the students of 326: 161:Rémundar saga keisarasonar 38:Norðlenski Benediktskólinn 226:Hákonar þáttr Hárekssonar 18: 205:Jóns þáttr Halldórssonar 149:Jóns þáttr Halldórssonar 131:Mikaels saga höfuðengils 125:Nikulás saga erkibiskups 180:and probably author of 109:Thomas saga erkibyskups 50:, and Icelandic as the 43:Laurentius saga biskups 256:Íslensk bókmenntasaga 310:Icelandic literature 228:; Jón Halldórsson's 218:; Jón Halldórsson's 167:Dínus saga drambláta 274:2015-10-06 at the 98:Arngrímr Brandsson 72:Lárentíus Kálfsson 62:in the diocese of 178:Atburð á Finnmörk 174:Einarr Hafliðason 82:Árni Lárentíusson 30: 29: 317: 278: 265: 259: 252: 221:Drauma-Jóns saga 143:Guðmundar saga C 103:Guðmundar saga D 48:florissante stil 23: 16: 325: 324: 320: 319: 318: 316: 315: 314: 300: 299: 287: 282: 281: 276:Wayback Machine 266: 262: 253: 249: 244: 183:Laurentius saga 137:Jóns saga helga 68:Jón Halldórsson 26: 12: 11: 5: 323: 321: 313: 312: 302: 301: 298: 297: 286: 283: 280: 279: 260: 246: 245: 243: 240: 234:; and several 200: 199: 196:Einarr Gilsson 193: 189:Lögmannsannáll 171: 120:Bergr Sokkason 117: 95: 87:Dunstanus saga 28: 27: 24: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 322: 311: 308: 307: 305: 296: 294: 289: 288: 284: 277: 273: 269: 264: 261: 257: 251: 248: 241: 239: 237: 233: 232: 227: 223: 222: 217: 216: 211: 207: 206: 197: 194: 191: 190: 185: 184: 179: 175: 172: 169: 168: 163: 162: 157: 156: 155:Kirjalax saga 151: 150: 145: 144: 139: 138: 133: 132: 127: 126: 121: 118: 115: 114:Thomas Becket 112:(the life of 111: 110: 105: 104: 99: 96: 93: 89: 88: 83: 80: 79: 78: 75: 73: 69: 65: 61: 57: 53: 49: 45: 44: 39: 35: 22: 17: 263: 255: 250: 235: 229: 225: 219: 215:Mikaels saga 213: 203: 201: 187: 181: 177: 165: 159: 153: 147: 141: 135: 129: 123: 122:, author of 107: 101: 100:, author of 85: 84:, author of 76: 51: 47: 41: 37: 33: 31: 210:Virgin Mary 285:References 231:Clári saga 212:; Bergr's 60:Munkaþverá 52:skrúðstíll 304:Category 272:Archived 186:and the 56:Þingeyri 236:exempla 92:Dunstan 164:, and 146:, and 242:Notes 64:Hólar 70:and 58:and 32:The 306:: 270:. 238:. 224:; 158:, 140:, 116:). 94:). 74:. 198:. 192:. 170:. 36:(

Index


Laurentius saga biskups
Þingeyri
Munkaþverá
Hólar
Jón Halldórsson
Lárentíus Kálfsson
Árni Lárentíusson
Dunstanus saga
Dunstan
Arngrímr Brandsson
Guðmundar saga D
Thomas saga erkibyskups
Thomas Becket
Bergr Sokkason
Nikulás saga erkibiskups
Mikaels saga höfuðengils
Jóns saga helga
Guðmundar saga C
Jóns þáttr Halldórssonar
Kirjalax saga
Rémundar saga keisarasonar
Dínus saga drambláta
Einarr Hafliðason
Laurentius saga
Lögmannsannáll
Einarr Gilsson
Jóns þáttr Halldórssonar
Virgin Mary
Mikaels saga

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