LEADER 04417nam 2200745 450 001 9910455929203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-99735-8 010 $a9786611997359 010 $a1-4426-8056-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442680562 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004399 035 $a(OCoLC)244767941 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219130 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000290258 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11211126 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000290258 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10408581 035 $a(PQKB)10297598 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600864 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255223 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672014 035 $a(DE-B1597)464922 035 $a(OCoLC)944177512 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442680562 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672014 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257700 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL199735 035 $a(OCoLC)958571742 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004399 100 $a20160922h19961996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Book of Reykjaho?lar $ethe last of the great medieval legendaries /$fMarianne E. Kalinke 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1996. 210 4$d©1996 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-7814-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAbbreviations -- $t1. Legenden/Lugenden -- $t2. The Eve of the Reformation in Iceland -- $t3. The Low German Sources of Reykjaholabok -- $t4. Bjorn Þorleifsson of Reykjaholar: Copyist, Translator, Editor, and Compiler -- $t5. The Communion of Saints -- $t6. 'God alone knows whether this legend is true' -- $t7. Sacred Romances -- $t8. Bjorn Porleifsson: Collector of Myths -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aChristian saints$xLegends$xHistory and criticism 606 $aOld Norse literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLow German literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTales, Medieval$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChristian hagiography$xHistory$yTo 1500 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChristian saints$xLegends$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aOld Norse literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLow German literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTales, Medieval$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChristian hagiography$xHistory 676 $a839/.63 700 $aKalinke$b Marianne E.$0928519 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455929203321 996 $aThe Book of Reykjaho?lar$92469619 997 $aUNINA