''Brenna Adams byskups'' (''The Burning of Bishop Adam'') is a short

Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlemen ...

narrative (''

þáttr The ''þættir'' (Old Norse singular ''þáttr'', literally meaning a "strand" of rope or yarn)O'Donoghue (2004:226). are short stories written mostly in Iceland during the 13th and 14th centuries. The majority of ''þættir'' occur in two compend ...

'') about

Adam of Melrose Adam of Melrose (died 1222) was Abbot of Melrose and Bishop of Caithness, famously burned to death by the husbandmen of Caithness. At the time, Caithness was part of the Jarldom of Orkney, which formed part of the Kingdom of Norway. Adam rose ...

, Bishop of Caithness and the events that led to his death in 1222. It is preserved in

Flateyjarbók ''Flateyjarbók'' (; "Book of Flatey") is an important medieval Icelandic manuscript. It is also known as GkS 1005 fol. and by the Latin name ''Codex Flateyensis''. It was commissioned by Jón Hákonarson and produced by the priests and scribes ...

and sometimes included as an appendix to '' Orkneyinga saga''.''Flateyjarbok: en samling af norske kongesagaer med indskudte mindre fortaellinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler : udgiven efter offentlig foranstaltning'', ed. Malling, 1862, Vol. 2, p. 529.

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