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Kirkjubæjarbók
Kirkjubæjarbók (Codex AM 429 12mo) is an Icelandic manuscript produced in around 1500 containing female saints' sagas. It is notable for being the only extant Old-Norse Icelandic legendary which exclusively deals with female saints and for being the only extant text which contains Old Norse-Icelandic prose and poetic accounts of St Dorothy. The book takes its name from the convent of Kirkjubær, which likely held the codex until King Christian III of Denmark dissolved the Icelandic monasteries in the mid sixteenth century. Contents The codex contains material in Old-Norse Icelandic and Latin relating to eight saints' legends: St Margaret of Antioch, St Catherine of Alexandria, St Cecilia, St Dorothea of Caesara, St Agnes, St Agatha, St Barbara, and Sts Fides, Spes and Caritas. Apart from the prose and poetry relating to St Dorothy, the legends all exist in other manuscripts written before 1500, though it is the only text which preserves the legend of St Cecilia in i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dórótheu Saga
''Dórótheu saga'' is an Old Norse-Icelandic saints' saga that recounts the legend of St Dorothy of Caesarea. It is preserved only in the manuscript ''Kirkjubæjarbók'' (AM 429 12mo), a codex containing lives of female saints written in Iceland around 1500. This manuscript also contains the only Old Norse-Icelandic poetry written about St Dorothy before 1500 and a Latin prayer to the saint not known from elsewhere in medieval Scandinavia. The text of the saga is a very close translation of the Latin text BHL 2324, with occasional differences, some of which are found in BHL 2325d. Dorothy also appears in three medieval and early modern Icelandic poems: ''Dórótheudiktur'' (ca. 1400–1500), which follows ''Dórótheu saga'' in ''Kirkjubæjarbók''; ''Dórótheukvæði I'', attributed to Ólafur Jónsson (1560-1672); ''Dórótheukvæði II'' (17th century), a rendering of the Danish ballad ''Den hellige Dorothea''. Bibliography A comprehensive bibliography can be found in W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |