Sainthood, Scriptoria, and Secular Erudition in Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia. Essays in Honour of Kirsten Wolf

Dario Bullitta, Natalie Van Deusen (eds). NEW. HArdback. Pages: 466 p. Illustrations:14 b/w, 26 col., 5 tables b/w. Language(s):English. Brepols, Publication Year:2022 - SUMMARY While medieval Iceland has long been celebrated and studied for its rich tradition of vernacular literature, in recent years attention has increasingly been paid to other areas of Old Norse-Icelandic scholarship, in particular the production of hagiographical and religious literature. At the same time, a similar renaissance has arisen in other fields, in particular Old Norse-Icelandic paleography, philology, and manuscript studies, thanks to the development of the so-called ‘new philology’, and its impact on our understanding of manuscripts. Central to these developments has been the scholarship of Kirsten Wolf, one of the foremost authorities in the fields of Old Norse-Icelandic hagiography, biblical literature, paleography, codicology, textual criticism, and lexicography, who is the honorand of this volume. Taking Prof. Wolf’s own research interests as its inspiration, this volume takes an unprecedented interdisciplinary approach to the theme of Sainthood, Scriptoria, and Secular Erudition in Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia in order both to celebrate Wolf’s profound career, and to illustrate the many ways in which these seemingly different fields overlap and converse with each other in important and productive ways. From sculpture to sagas, and from skaldic verse to textual editions and the translation of hitherto unpublished works, the contributions gathered here offer new and important insights into our knowledge of medieval and early modern Scandinavian literature, history, and culture. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction — DARIO BULLITTA AND NATALIE M. VAN DEUSEN Section I. Pictorial and Sculptural Sainthood In Hand and Underfoot: Reading Medieval Scandinavian Wooden Sculptures — THOMAS A. DUBOIS Pictorial Hagiography: The Gotlandic Death of a German Emperor — MARIANNE KALINKE Section II. Medieval Sainthood Miracles and Emotions in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature — ÁSDÍS EGILSDÓTTIR St Cecilia’s Icelandic Miracles in Holm perg 2 fol — MARGARET CORMACK St Michael: God’s Þjónustumaðr — JÓN VIÐAR SIGURÐSSON Section III. The Sagas of Guðmundr the Good The Evidence for the Lost *Vita et miracula Godemundi boni of Brother Arngrímr — GOTTSKÁLK JENSSON Who is Selkolla and What is She? Disentangling Traditions in Guðmundar sǫgur byskups — SHAUN F.D. HUGHES Section IV. Spiritual Readings Frá því er Guð freistaði Abraham: Genesis 22 in Old Norse-Icelandic Tradition — SIÂN E. GRØNLIE A Þingeyrar Book for Spiritual Ascent: Scribes and Items of AM 624 4to — DARIO BULLITTA Section V. Skaldic Poetry The Danish Tongue on Skaldic Lips — RUSSELL POOLE Post-Classical Kennings — MARGARET CLUNIES ROSS Kennings for Poetry in Late-Medieval Icelandic Trúarkvæði — MARTIN CHASE Section VI. Secular Erudition Sturla Þórðarson: A Moral Witness — ÚLFAR BRAGASON Guðrún’s Mysteriously Missing Husband — TODD MICHELSON-AMBELANG Section VII. Postmedieval Sainthood Helga Aradóttir in Ögur: A Lutheran Saint? — ÞÓRUNN SIGURÐARDÓTTIR The Once-Popular and Now-Forgotten Verónikukvæði — MARGRÉT EGGERTSDÓTTIR Í ástarbing: Marian Sentiments in Lbs 3013 8vo — SVANHILDUR ÓSKARSDÓTTIR A Tale of Model Women: An Edition of Kvendæmaþáttur — NATALIE M. VAN DEUSEN List of Publications by Kirsten Wolf Tabula gratulatoria Index. …