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The Book of Reykjahólar, produced on the very eve of the Reformation, investigates what may be considered the last medieval legendary. The legendary's significance resides in its preserving in Icelandic translation a group of otherwise unattested medieval Low German saints' lives. Marianne E. Kalinke presents a literary analysis of the Reykjahólar legendary, demonstrating what kind of sources the translator used in his compilation and how he collected, combined, and adapted these texts to suit his Icelandic audience. The book also offers stylistic, thematic, and comparative analyses of the legends.A number of these Christian myths are apocryphal, some transmit folk tales and romances, such as the legend of the hairy anchorite (St John Chrysostom), the search for the highest king (St Christopher), the tale of the grateful lion (St Jerome), the tale of the dragon-slayer (St George), and the story of the holy sinner (Gregorius peccator). The legends belong to the vast corpus of German hagiography, yet the currency of these particular versions is documented today only in translation by virtue of their inclusion in this Icelandic legendary. The book opens with a survey of the development of German hagiography, goes on to a discussion of the religious and intellectual climate in early sixteenth-century Iceland, and then follows with a consideration of the legendary's Low German sources and its production by one of the wealthiest Icelanders of the time, Björn Thorleifsson of Reykjahólar.

Low German literature --- Old Norse literature --- Tales, Medieval --- Christian saints --- Christian hagiography --- History and criticism --- History --- Reykjahólabók --- Saints chrétiens --- Littérature bas-allemande --- Littérature vieux norroise --- Legends --- Légendes --- Histoire et critique --- Reykjahólabók --- History and criticism. --- Reykjahólabók. --- Book of Reykjahólar --- Low German literature - History and criticism --- Old Norse literature - History and criticism --- Tales, Medieval - History and criticism --- Christian saints - Legends - History and criticism --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500

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Ever since its introduction in the 1970s, Ruth Finnegan’s notion of the oral-written, or the oral-literate, continuum has served as one of the most effective means of dispelling the dichotomous understanding of the two principal media of communication in the Middle Ages. However, while often casually invoked, the concept has never been made a focus of study in its own right. The present volume is an attempt to place the oral-written continuum at the heart of discussion as an object of a head-on theoretical investigation, as a backdrop to distinct processes of acquisition of literacy in different European regions, and, indeed, as a tool for navigating the rugged landscape of verbal forms, exploring the complexity of oral-literary interrelationships that they manifest. The articles probe the concept with a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, span diverse texts and genres, and involve a range of European cultural contexts, with special emphasis on Scandinavia and Northern Europe, but also reaching out to various other corners of the continent: from France, the Netherlands and England in the West, over Germany, Bohemia and Poland in the central region, to Serbia and Bosnia in the Southeast.

Scandinavian literature --- Literary rhetorics --- anno 500-1499 --- Literacy --- Written communication --- Oral tradition --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- Old Norse literature --- History --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Alphabétisation --- Communication écrite --- Tradition orale --- Rhétorique médiévale --- Littérature vieux norroise --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Europe --- To 1500 --- Rhetoric [Medieval ] --- Literacy - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Written communication - History - Europe - Written communication - History - To 1500 --- Oral tradition - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Rhetoric, Medieval - Europe --- Old Norse literature - History and criticism --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education

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Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Inscripties [Runen] --- Inscriptions [Runic ] --- Inscriptions runiques --- Opschriften [Runen] --- Pierres runiques --- Runeninscripties --- Runenopschriften --- Runes -- Inscriptions --- Runic inscriptions --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- Inscriptions, Runic --- Old Norse literature --- Women, Viking --- Littérature vieux norroise --- Femmes viking --- History and criticism --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Scandinavia --- Scandinavie --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Inscriptions, Runic. --- Women in literature. --- Women --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Antiquities. --- Littérature vieux norroise --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Antiquités --- Women [Viking ] --- Women, Viking - History. --- Old Norse literature - History and criticism. --- Scandinavia - Antiquities.

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"This book examines the cults and legends of Martha and Mary Magdalen in Scandinavia through the composite Mǫrtu saga ok Maríu Magðalenu, compiled in Iceland in the mid-fourteenth century. The study treats the saga's manuscripts and various Latin sources, which lend insight into its authorship and provenance. Special attention is given to issues of style and content, and in particular, to views on women preaching in medieval Iceland. The book concludes with a normalized edition of the only complete redaction of Mǫrtu saga ok Maríu Magðalenu, followed by its first English translation."--

Old Norse literature --- Sagas --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- History and criticism --- Mary Magdalene, --- Martha, --- Cult --- In literature --- Littérature vieux norroise --- Manuscrits médiévaux --- 18.14 Scandinavian languages and literature. --- Cults. --- Literature. --- Manuscripts, Medieval. --- Old Norse literature. --- Sagas. --- Altnordisch. --- Heiligenvita. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Marie-Madeleine, --- Marthe, --- Maria Magdalena, --- Marta, --- In literature. --- Culte --- Mo̧rtu saga ok Maríu Magðalenu. --- Scandinavia. --- 235.3 "04/14" --- 235.3 <491.1> --- 235.3-055.2 --- 235.3-055.2 Heilige vrouwen --- Heilige vrouwen --- 235.3 <491.1> Hagiografie--Ijsland --- 235.3 <491.1> Hagiographie--Ijsland --- Hagiografie--Ijsland --- Hagiographie--Ijsland --- 235.3 "04/14" Hagiografie--Middeleeuwen --- 235.3 "04/14" Hagiographie--Middeleeuwen --- Hagiografie--Middeleeuwen --- Hagiographie--Middeleeuwen --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Martha V. --- Marŭtʻa --- Maddalena, --- Madeleine, --- Magdaghinē, --- Magdalene, --- Maria Maddalena, --- Mariam Magdaghenatsʻi, --- Marie Madeleine, --- Mary Magdalen, --- Maryam al-Majdalīyah, --- Mo̧rtu saga ok Maríu Magðalenu. --- Maria Magdalena --- Old Norse literature - History and criticism --- Sagas - History and criticism --- Manuscripts, Medieval - Scandinavia --- Mary Magdalene, - Saint - Cult - Scandinavia --- Martha, - Saint - Cult - Scandinavia --- Mary Magdalene, - Saint - Legends --- Martha, - Saint - Legends --- Mary Magdalene, - Saint - In literature --- Martha, - Saint - In literature --- Mary Magdalene, - Saint --- Martha, - Saint