Þorlákur Runólfsson

Þorlákur Runólfsson (* 1086 ; † 1133 in Skálholt ) was a bishop of Skálholt in southern Iceland .

He exercised the episcopate from 1118 until his death.

family

His mother was the daughter of Snorri Þorfinnsson from Glaumbær in Skagafjörður . He himself was a great-grandson of the legendary Greenland and America travelers Þorfinnur Karlsefni Þórðarson and Guðríður Þorbjarnardóttir .

education

He was trained in the then famous school of the rectory in Haukadalur . The Skálholt Bishop Gissur Ísleifsson chose him as his successor. Þorlákur did not want this at first, among other things he did not feel mature enough, but finally he gave in and was consecrated on April 28, 1118 in Lund , Sweden.

Act

Together with Ketill Þorsteinsson , Bishop of Hólar , he stood for the introduction of canon law in Iceland.

Like his predecessors, he ran a school in Skálholt.

He died in Skálholt in 1133.

See also

• History of Iceland

literature

• Biskupsstólanna saga. Hólar 2006.

Web links

• Hungrvaka (original text), chap. 7 on Þorlákur, p. 51 ff. (Latin / Icelandic)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Hungrvaka (original text), chap. 7 on Þorlákur, p. 51 ff. (Accessed: July 28, 2010)

predecessor	Office	successor
Gissur Ísleifsson	Bishop of Skálholt 1118–1133	Magnús Einarsson

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