Recent Translations of the Medieval Icelandic Bishops' Sagas
This article reviews the two most recent English-language translations of medieval sagas of Icelandic bishops, both from 2021: Margaret Cormack's The Saga of St. Jón of Hólar, published with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Theodore M. Andersson's Bishops in Ea...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Alberta Library
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Scandinavian-Canadian Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://scancan.net/index.php/scancan/article/view/241 |
| Summary: | This article reviews the two most recent English-language translations of medieval sagas of Icelandic bishops, both from 2021: Margaret Cormack's The Saga of St. Jón of Hólar, published with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Theodore M. Andersson's Bishops in Early Iceland, published with the Viking Society for Northern Research. Both translations represent valuable new contributions to the field. In addition to a critical overview of these texts, the article overviews the history of English translations of the genre of medieval Icelandic bishops' sagas.
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| ISSN: | 0823-1796 2816-5187 |