Saints' sagas
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Saints' sagas
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Saints' sagas are a genre of Old Norse sagas comprising the prose hagiography of medieval western Scandinavia. The corpus of such sagas and their manuscript attestations was surveyed by Ole Widding, Hans Bekker-Nielsen, L. K. Shook in 1963. Their work revealed over 100 different saints' lives, mostly based on Latin sources. Few are of Icelandic saints, with only Jón Ögmundarson, Þorlákr Þórhallsson, and Guðmundr Arason being candidates. In the words of Jonas Wellendorf: These sagas are preserved
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2023-09-09T21:08:49Z
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