The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose / / Kirsten Wolf.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Wolf, Kirsten,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations and Symbols --; Bibliography --; I. Catalogues and Bibliographies --; II. Collections and Anthologies --; III. General Works --; IV. Essay Collections, Festschrifts, and Conference Proceedings --; V. Individual Legends --; Index of Manuscripts
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442665156; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442665156
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kirsten Wolf.

Saints' legends form a substantial portion of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, and can be found in more than four hundred manuscripts or fragments of manuscripts dating from shortly before the twelfth century to the 1700s. With The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose, Kirsten Wolf has undertaken a complete revision of the fifty-year-old handlist The Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose. This updated handlist organizes saints' names, manuscripts, and editions of individual lives with references to the approximate dates of the manuscripts, as well as modern Icelandic editions and translations. Each entry concludes with secondary literature about the legend in question. These features combine to make The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose an invaluable resource for scholars and students in the field.