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View Affiliations Hide Affiliations1 is Assistant Professor in the history of the Christian religion and religious studies at the University of Iceland. His research interests include the cultural history of the political and the study of historical secularities. He has recently published Force of Words: A Cultural History of Christianity and Politics in Medieval Iceland (11th-13th cts.), Northern World, 90 (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
- Publication: The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300 , pp 113-134
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- Publication Date: January 2024
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Figure 4.1.
A statue of the apostle Andrew with the apostle’s X shaped cross missing. The statue belonged to the church at Teigur in Fljótshlíð, Southern Iceland. Reykjavík, Þjóðminjasafnið. Thirteenth century.
Photo courtesy of the National Museum of Iceland.
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Figure 4.1.
A statue of the apostle Andrew with the apostle’s X shaped cross missing. The statue belonged to the church at Teigur in Fljótshlíð, Southern Iceland. Reykjavík, Þjóðminjasafnið. Thirteenth century.
Photo courtesy of the National Museum of Iceland.
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Figure 4.2.
A fragment of a wooden board from a church, probably in Flatatunga in Skagafjörður, Northern Iceland. It depicts two figures with halos, possibly Christ and an apostle. Reykjavík, Þjóðminjasafnið. Twelfth century.
Photo courtesy of the National Museum of Iceland.
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Figure 4.2.
A fragment of a wooden board from a church, probably in Flatatunga in Skagafjörður, Northern Iceland. It depicts two figures with halos, possibly Christ and an apostle. Reykjavík, Þjóðminjasafnið. Twelfth century.
Photo courtesy of the National Museum of Iceland.
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Copenhagen, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, AM 645 4to, and Copenhagen, AM 652/630 4to
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Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, Stock. Perg. 4to. no. 15
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Primary SourcesBiskupa sögur ii, Íslenzk fornrit xvi, ed. by Ásdís Egilsdóttir (Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 2002)
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Diplomatarium Islandicum. Íslenzkt fornbréfasafn, 16 vols (Copenhagen and Reykjavík: S. L. Möller and Hið íslenzka bókmenntafélag, 1857–1952), i (1857–1876)
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Ljósvetninga saga með þáttum: Reykdæla saga ok Víga-Skútu. Hreiðars þáttr, Íslenzk fornrit x, ed. by Björn Sigfússon (Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 1979)
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Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1, From Mythical Times to c. 1035, ed. by Kari Ellen Gade, part 2 Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013)
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Postola sögur: Legendariske fortællinger om apostlernes liv deres kamp for kristendommens udbredelse samt deres martyrdød, ed. by C. R. Unger (Christiania [Oslo]: B. M. Bentzen, 1874)
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Sanctuarium Seu Vitae Sanctorum i–ii, ed. by Boninus Mombritius (Paris: Albertus Fontemoing, 1910)
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Sturlunga saga. Árna Saga biskups. Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar hin sérstaka, i and ii, ed. by Örnólfur Thorsson (Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2010 [1988])
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Secondary StudiesAgnes S. Arnórsdóttir, ‘Danske dronninger i de islandske sagaer’, in Dronningemagt i middelalderen: Festskrift til Anders Bøgh, ed. by Jeppe B. Netterstrøm and Kasper H. Andersen (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2018), pp. 51–82
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Althoff, Gerd, ‘Libertas ecclesiae oder die Anfänge der Säkularisierung im Investiturstreit?’, in Umstrittene Säkularisierung: Soziologische und Historische Analysen zur Differenzierung von Religion und Politik, ed. by Karl Gabriel, Christel Gärtner, and Detlef Pollack, 2nd edn (Berlin: Berlin University Press, 2014), pp. 78–100
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Assmann, Jan, Das kulturelle Gedächtnis: Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen, Beck’sche Reihe, 1307, 6th edn (Munich: Beck, 2007)
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Bauer, Thomas, A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021)
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Björn Þorsteinsson, Íslensk miðaldasaga, 2nd edn (Reykjavík: Sögufélag, 1980)
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Boyer, Régis, ‘Were the Icelanders Good Christians according to Samtidarsogur?’, in Samtíðarsögur: The Contemporary Sagas i, ed. by Sverrir Tómasson, The Ninth International Saga Conference (Akureyri: [n. pub.], 1994), pp. 111–22
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Cormack, Margaret, The Saints in Iceland: Their Veneration from the Conversion to 1400, Subsidia hagiographica, 78 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1994)
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Finnur Jónsson, Den oldnorske og oldislandske litteraturs historie 2, 2nd edn (Copenhagen: G. E. C. Gads Forlag, 1923)
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Fritzner, Johan, Ordbog over det gamle norske Sprog (Kristiania [Oslo]: Feilberg & Landmark, 1867), consulted online <http://www.edd.uio.no/perl/search/search.cgi?appid=86&tabid=1275> [Accessed 12 September 2021]
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Haki Antonsson, Damnation and Salvation in Old Norse Literature, Studies in Old Norse Literature (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2018)
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Haraldur Hreinsson, Force of Words: A Cultural History of Christianity and Politics in Medieval Iceland (11th–13th Centuries), The Northern World, 90 (Leiden: Brill, 2021)
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Gunnar Karlsson, Goðamenning: Staða og áhrif goðsorðsmanna í þjóðveldi Íslendinga (Reykjavík: Heimskringa, Háskólaforlag Máls og menningar, 200 Sigfússon 4)
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Jón Ma. Ásgeirsson and Þórður Ingi Guðjónsson, Frá Sýrlandi til Íslands: Tómasarguðspjall, Tómasarkver, Tómas saga Postula (Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2007)
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Jón Jóhannesson, Íslendinga saga I. Þjóðveldisöld (Reykjavík: Almenna bókafélagið, 1956)
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Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Chieftains and Power in the Icelandic Commonwealth, trans. by Jean Lundskær-Nielsen (Odense: Odense University Press, 1999)
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Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, ‘Kings, Earls, and Chieftains: Rulers in Norway, Orkney, and Iceland c. 900–1300’, in Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages, ed. by Gro Steinsland, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Jar Erik Rekdal, and Ian B. Beuermann, The Northern World, 52 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 69–108
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Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Viking Friendship: The Social Bond in Iceland and Norway, c. 900–1300 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017)
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Magnús Stefánsson, ‘Kirkjuvald eflist’, in Saga Íslands II, ed. by Sigurður Líndal (Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka bókmenntafélag, Sögufélagið, 1975), pp. 57–144
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Magnús Stefánsson, Staðir og staðamál, Studier i islandske egenkirkelige og beneficialrettslige forhold i middelalderen I (Bergen: Historisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen, 2000)
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Meulengracht Sørensen, Preben, Fortællling og ære: Studier i islændingesagaerne (Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 1993)
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Miller, William Ian, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990)
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Nordal, Guðrún, Ethics and Action in Thirteenth-Century Iceland, The Viking Collection, 11 ([Odense]: Odense University Press, 1998)
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Orri Vésteinsson, Christianization of Iceland: Priests, Power, and Social Change 1000–1300 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
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Patzold, Steffen, Presbyter: Moral, Mobilität und die Kirchenorganisation im Karolingerreich, Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, 68 (Stuttgart, Hiersemann, 2020)
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Roughton, Philip, ‘AM 645 4to and AM 652/630 4to: Study and Translation of Two Thirteenth-Century Icelandic Collections of Apostles’ and Saints’ Lives’ (PhD dissertation, University of Colorado, 2002)
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Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007)
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Sigurður Nordal, Íslenzk menning I (Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 1942)
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Sverrir Jakobsson, ‘The Territorialization of Power in the Icelandic Commonwealth’, in Statsutvikling i Skandinavia i middelalderen, ed. by Sverre Bagge, Michael H. Gelting, Frode Hervik, Thomas Lindkvist, and Bjørn Poulsen (Oslo: Dreyer, 2012), pp. 101–18
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Tierney, Brian, Crisis of Church and State, 1050–1300: With Selected Documents (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1964)
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Wood, Susan, The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
[Citing articles]
[Web of Science]
[Medline]
References
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Manuscripts, Archival Sources, and Other Unedited MaterialCopenhagen, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, AM 655 IX 4to
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Copenhagen, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, AM 645 4to, and Copenhagen, AM 652/630 4to
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Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, Stock. Perg. 4to. no. 15
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Primary SourcesBiskupa sögur ii, Íslenzk fornrit xvi, ed. by Ásdís Egilsdóttir (Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 2002)
-
Diplomatarium Islandicum. Íslenzkt fornbréfasafn, 16 vols (Copenhagen and Reykjavík: S. L. Möller and Hið íslenzka bókmenntafélag, 1857–1952), i (1857–1876)
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Ljósvetninga saga með þáttum: Reykdæla saga ok Víga-Skútu. Hreiðars þáttr, Íslenzk fornrit x, ed. by Björn Sigfússon (Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka fornritafélag, 1979)
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Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1, From Mythical Times to c. 1035, ed. by Kari Ellen Gade, part 2 Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013)
-
Postola sögur: Legendariske fortællinger om apostlernes liv deres kamp for kristendommens udbredelse samt deres martyrdød, ed. by C. R. Unger (Christiania [Oslo]: B. M. Bentzen, 1874)
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Sanctuarium Seu Vitae Sanctorum i–ii, ed. by Boninus Mombritius (Paris: Albertus Fontemoing, 1910)
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Sturlunga saga. Árna Saga biskups. Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar hin sérstaka, i and ii, ed. by Örnólfur Thorsson (Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 2010 [1988])
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Secondary StudiesAgnes S. Arnórsdóttir, ‘Danske dronninger i de islandske sagaer’, in Dronningemagt i middelalderen: Festskrift til Anders Bøgh, ed. by Jeppe B. Netterstrøm and Kasper H. Andersen (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2018), pp. 51–82
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Althoff, Gerd, ‘Libertas ecclesiae oder die Anfänge der Säkularisierung im Investiturstreit?’, in Umstrittene Säkularisierung: Soziologische und Historische Analysen zur Differenzierung von Religion und Politik, ed. by Karl Gabriel, Christel Gärtner, and Detlef Pollack, 2nd edn (Berlin: Berlin University Press, 2014), pp. 78–100
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Assmann, Jan, Das kulturelle Gedächtnis: Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen, Beck’sche Reihe, 1307, 6th edn (Munich: Beck, 2007)
-
Bauer, Thomas, A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021)
-
Björn Þorsteinsson, Íslensk miðaldasaga, 2nd edn (Reykjavík: Sögufélag, 1980)
-
Boyer, Régis, ‘Were the Icelanders Good Christians according to Samtidarsogur?’, in Samtíðarsögur: The Contemporary Sagas i, ed. by Sverrir Tómasson, The Ninth International Saga Conference (Akureyri: [n. pub.], 1994), pp. 111–22
-
Cormack, Margaret, The Saints in Iceland: Their Veneration from the Conversion to 1400, Subsidia hagiographica, 78 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1994)
-
Finnur Jónsson, Den oldnorske og oldislandske litteraturs historie 2, 2nd edn (Copenhagen: G. E. C. Gads Forlag, 1923)
-
Fritzner, Johan, Ordbog over det gamle norske Sprog (Kristiania [Oslo]: Feilberg & Landmark, 1867), consulted online <http://www.edd.uio.no/perl/search/search.cgi?appid=86&tabid=1275> [Accessed 12 September 2021]
-
Haki Antonsson, Damnation and Salvation in Old Norse Literature, Studies in Old Norse Literature (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2018)
-
Haraldur Hreinsson, Force of Words: A Cultural History of Christianity and Politics in Medieval Iceland (11th–13th Centuries), The Northern World, 90 (Leiden: Brill, 2021)
-
Gunnar Karlsson, Goðamenning: Staða og áhrif goðsorðsmanna í þjóðveldi Íslendinga (Reykjavík: Heimskringa, Háskólaforlag Máls og menningar, 200 Sigfússon 4)
-
Jón Ma. Ásgeirsson and Þórður Ingi Guðjónsson, Frá Sýrlandi til Íslands: Tómasarguðspjall, Tómasarkver, Tómas saga Postula (Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2007)
-
Jón Jóhannesson, Íslendinga saga I. Þjóðveldisöld (Reykjavík: Almenna bókafélagið, 1956)
-
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Chieftains and Power in the Icelandic Commonwealth, trans. by Jean Lundskær-Nielsen (Odense: Odense University Press, 1999)
-
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, ‘Kings, Earls, and Chieftains: Rulers in Norway, Orkney, and Iceland c. 900–1300’, in Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages, ed. by Gro Steinsland, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Jar Erik Rekdal, and Ian B. Beuermann, The Northern World, 52 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 69–108
-
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Viking Friendship: The Social Bond in Iceland and Norway, c. 900–1300 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017)
-
Magnús Stefánsson, ‘Kirkjuvald eflist’, in Saga Íslands II, ed. by Sigurður Líndal (Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka bókmenntafélag, Sögufélagið, 1975), pp. 57–144
-
Magnús Stefánsson, Staðir og staðamál, Studier i islandske egenkirkelige og beneficialrettslige forhold i middelalderen I (Bergen: Historisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen, 2000)
-
Meulengracht Sørensen, Preben, Fortællling og ære: Studier i islændingesagaerne (Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 1993)
-
Miller, William Ian, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990)
-
Nordal, Guðrún, Ethics and Action in Thirteenth-Century Iceland, The Viking Collection, 11 ([Odense]: Odense University Press, 1998)
-
Orri Vésteinsson, Christianization of Iceland: Priests, Power, and Social Change 1000–1300 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
-
Patzold, Steffen, Presbyter: Moral, Mobilität und die Kirchenorganisation im Karolingerreich, Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, 68 (Stuttgart, Hiersemann, 2020)
-
Roughton, Philip, ‘AM 645 4to and AM 652/630 4to: Study and Translation of Two Thirteenth-Century Icelandic Collections of Apostles’ and Saints’ Lives’ (PhD dissertation, University of Colorado, 2002)
-
Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007)
-
Sigurður Nordal, Íslenzk menning I (Reykjavík: Mál og menning, 1942)
-
Sverrir Jakobsson, ‘The Territorialization of Power in the Icelandic Commonwealth’, in Statsutvikling i Skandinavia i middelalderen, ed. by Sverre Bagge, Michael H. Gelting, Frode Hervik, Thomas Lindkvist, and Bjørn Poulsen (Oslo: Dreyer, 2012), pp. 101–18
-
Tierney, Brian, Crisis of Church and State, 1050–1300: With Selected Documents (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1964)
-
Wood, Susan, The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
-
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