Samtíðarsaga
The contemporary sagas (known in Icelandic as ) are: *Bishops' saga *Sturlunga saga {{Short pages monitor ...
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Bishops' Saga
The bishops' saga (Old Norse and modern Icelandic ''biskupasaga'', modern Icelandic plural ''biskupasögur'', Old Norse plural ''biskupasǫgur'') is a genre of medieval Icelandic sagas, mostly thirteenth- and earlier fourteenth-century prose histories dealing with bishops of Iceland's two medieval dioceses of Skálholt and Hólar. Sagas about Skálholt bishops * ''Hungrvaka'' (short biographies of the first five List of Skálholt bishops, bishops of Skálholt, 1056–1176) * ''Þorláks saga helga'' (three redactions, including the earliest of the ''biskupa sögur'') * ''Páls saga biskups'' (the saga of Þorlákr's successor Páll Jónsson, d. 1211) * ''Árna saga biskups'' (composed c. 1300 about Árni Þorláksson, d. 1298) Two ''Þáttr, þættir'' are also relevant: ''Ísleifs þáttr biskups'' and ''Jóns þáttr biskups Halldórssonar, Jóns þáttr Halldórssonar''. Sagas about Hólar bishops * ''Jóns saga helga'' (about Jón Ögmundsson, 1052–1121, in several differen ...
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