oa Saints of the Low Countries in Scandinavia: Manuscript evidence from twelfth-century Lund and Nidaros

The Christianisation of Scandinavia, generally viewed as having been conducted from England and Germany, has formed the context in which evidence of saints’ cults has been interpreted in Denmark and Norway, not only during the early days of organised Christendom, but also during the High Middle Ages. Consequently, saints associated with the Low Countries and appearing in Danish and Norwegian manuscripts has been partly overlooked in the scholarship, partly assigned to other categories such as ‘French’ and ‘German’. This article examines the inclusion of such saints in twelfth-century manuscripts with a provenance from the archsees of Lund and Nidaros, bringing nuance to the standard narrative and shedding new light on connections that have so far been little studied.