Óláfs ​​saga helga

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Óláfs ​​saga helga ( Saga of St. Olav ) is the name given to various versions of Icelandic king sagas about the life of St. Olav II , King of Norway.

Versions

  • The oldest saga of St. Olav , around 1160/80, from the Þingeyrark monastery , is only preserved in very small fragments on the spine of account books from 1638 to 1641 in the Oslo Imperial Archives.
  • Middle saga of St. Olav , not preserved
  • Helgisagan um Ólaf digra Haraldsson ( Holy Saga of Olaf Haraldsson the Fat , or Legendary Saga of Olav ), around 1210, Icelandic saga, uses the Middle Saga and orally transmitted legends.
  • Lífssaga Óláfs ​​sins helga ( Saga of the life of St. Olav ) by Styrmir Kárason, around 1220, used Middle Saga , It is preserved in a few excerpts or chapter summaries in the appendix of the Flateyjarbók . They are distinguished by a richer rhetorical style.
  • Saga Óláfs ​​konungs hins helga ( [Separate] Saga of the Holy King Olav ) by Snorri Sturluson , around 1220, used Helgisagan and Lífssaga , is more oriented towards the worldly life of Olav.
  • Section in the Fagrskinna , around 1220, used Helgisagan and Lífssaga
  • Óláfs ​​saga helga by Snorri Storlusson in Heimskringla , around 1230, from Snorri's version of 1220 and Fagrskinna .
  • Óláfs ​​saga helga in the Flateyjarbók , an expanded version of the Snorri version from 1220.

expenditure

German

  • Olaf's saga to helga. The "Legendary Saga" about Olaf the Saint , ed. u. trans. by Anne Heinrichs, u. a. Heidelberg 1982 ( Germanische Bibliothek , series 4) ISBN 3-533-03055-5 .

Latin

  • Historia Regis Olavi Sancti , ed. v. Sveinbjörn Egilsson, Hafnia 1828–1846, Vol. 1 , 2

literature

  • Lönnroth, Lars: Óláfs ​​saga helga. In: Dictionary of the Middle Ages , Vol. 9, Scribners, 1987
  • Rudolf Simek , Hermann Pálsson : Lexicon of old Norse literature. The medieval literature of Norway and Iceland (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 490). 2nd, significantly increased and revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-520-49002-5 , p. 93 and others.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Olaf's saga, helga. The "Legendary Saga" about Olaf the Saint , ed. u. trans. by Anne Heinrichs [u. a.]. Heidelberg 1982. The manuscript is in the Uppsala University Library, Hs. Delagard / De Gardie. saml. No. 8 II .