Kristni saga

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The Kristni saga is an Icelandic saga that tells the process of Christianization in Iceland in the years after 981.

Christianization was mainly due to the pressure of the Norwegian King Olav Tryggvason , who ruled from 995 to 1000. In the year 1000 the Icelandic Thing decided to introduce Christianity , but without completely banning non-Christian traditions. Child abandonment and old secret sacrifices continued to go unpunished.

The Christianization of Iceland is also the subject of the Njáls saga belonging to the Íslendinga sögur .

literature

  • Irene Ruth Kupferschmied: Investigations into the literary form of the Kristni saga. Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-3816-0877-5 .
  • Real Lexicon of Germanic Antiquity. Volume 17, Berlin 2001, p. 380.