Kirkjubæjarbók
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kirkjub-jarb-k-280-3153590
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Kirkjubæjarbók
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Kirkjubæjarbók 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 c
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkjub%C3%A6jarb%C3%B3k
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2024-02-02T23:01:09Z
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