Thómas saga Erkibyskups ( en, Saga of Archbishop Thomas) is an
Icelandic saga
The sagas of Icelanders ( is, Íslendingasögur, ), also known as family sagas, are one genre of Icelandic sagas. They are prose narratives mostly based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the ninth, tenth, and early e ...
on Saint
Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket (), also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket (21 December 1119 or 1120 – 29 December 1170), was an English nobleman who served as Lord Chancellor from 1155 to 1162, and then ...
written in the 14th century and based on earlier sources: a now lost "Life" by
Robert of Cricklade which was written soon after Becket's murder, a "Life" by
Benet of St Albans, and an Icelandic translation of the "Quadrilogus" (a composite life based on 12th-century biographers). It provides some unique details, like Thomas speaking with a stammer; these details mostly come from Robert's "Life", which also was a source for Benet's.
[Staunton ''Lives of Thomas Becket'' p. 11]
Citations
References
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Further reading
*''Thomasskinna: Gl. kgl. saml. 1008 fol. in the Royal Library, Copenhagen ''; edited by
Agnete Loth Agnete Loth (18 November 1921 – 2 June 1990) was an editor and translator of Old Norse-Icelandic texts. She is notable for editing late medieval romance sagas, which she published in five volumes intended "to provide a long-needed provisional bas ...
. (Early Icelandic Manuscripts in Facsimile; vol. 6.) Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1964
*''Thómas saga erkibyskups: A life of Archbishop Thomas Becket, in Icelandic''; with English translation, notes and glossary; edited by Eiríkr Magnusson. 2 vols. London: Longmans, 1875-83
14th-century books
Sagas of saints
Icelandic literature
Thomas Becket
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