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Genre of saga From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The bishops' saga (Old Norse and modern Icelandic biskupasaga, modern Icelandic plural biskupasögur, Old Norse plural biskupasǫgur) is a genre of medieval Icelandic sagas, mostly thirteenth- and earlier fourteenth-century prose histories dealing with bishops of Iceland's two medieval dioceses of Skálholt and Hólar.
Two þættir are also relevant: Ísleifs þáttr biskups and Jóns þáttr Halldórssonar.
Several of the Hólar sagas are associated with the North Icelandic Benedictine School which flourished in the fourteenth century.
Ásdís Egilsdóttir (1993). "Biskupa sögur". In Pulsiano, Phillip; Wolf, Kirsten (eds.). Medieval Scandinavia: An encyclopedia. New York: Garland. pp. 45–46. ISBN 0824047877.
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