Laurentius saga (modern Icelandic Lárentíus saga ) is an Icelandic saga , written in the third quarter of the fourteenth century, describing the life of Icelandic bishop Laurentius Kálfsson , thus covering the period 1267–1331.
6-453: The North Icelandic Benedictine School ( Norðlenski Benediktskólinn ) is a fourteenth-century Icelandic literary movement, the lives, activities, and relationships of whose members are attested particularly by Laurentius saga biskups . This movement is characterised by an elaborate rhetorical style new to Icelandic saga-writing at the time (known in English as the 'florid style', Scandinavian as
12-511: The Virgin Mary ; Bergr's Mikaels saga ; Jón Halldórsson's Drauma-Jóns saga ; Hákonar þáttr Hárekssonar ; Jón Halldórsson's Clári saga ; and several exempla . Laurentius Saga The presumed author, Einarr Hafliðason , was a student and friend of Laurentius. Although incomplete, Laurentius saga is considered to be one of the best written of the early Icelandic biographies, as well as being an important source of information about
18-478: The florissante stil , and Icelandic as the skrúðstíll ), with Latinate grammar, Latin and Low German loan-words; and, unusually for Icelandic sagas, which are usually anonymous, a close-knit network of identifiable authors (sometimes self-identified, sometimes named by others). The school is associated particularly with the Northern Icelandic Benedictine monasteries of Þingeyri and Munkaþverá in
24-442: The diocese of Hólar , and with the students of Jón Halldórsson and Lárentíus Kálfsson . The principal authors and works associated with this literary movement are: Among the various manuscripts which can be associated with the movement, the mid-fourteenth-century AM 657 a-b 4to is a good example: it is the oldest manuscript to contain the text of Bergr's Jóns þáttr Halldórssonar ; it also contains stories miracles performed by
30-755: The teaching and education methods of the day. It can be seen as one of the products of the North Icelandic Benedictine School . The saga is preserved primarily in two vellum manuscripts containing different versions of the saga: A (Reykjavík, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, AM 406 a I 4to), written in Hólar around 1530, possibly by síra Tómas Eiríksson; and B (Reykjavík, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, AM 180 b fol.), also written in Hólar, this time around 1500. The sagas contain slightly different information, suggesting that both have shortened an earlier version somewhat, but of
36-428: The two B seems to be the shorter. Both have missing pages and must to some extent be supplemented from Þ (Reykjavík, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, AM 404 4to), copied by Jón Pálsson at the behest of Þorlákur Skúlason, the bishop of Hólar, around 1640, when the manuscripts were more complete. This mostly copies B but another of Þórlákur's scribes, Brynjólfur Jónsson, filled in the gaps from A. This article about sagas
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