Medieval Oddi in Iceland as a Place of Power and Learning : Clerics, Chieftains, and Textual Culture /

Medieval Oddi in Iceland as a Place of Power and Learning : Clerics, Chieftains, and Textual Culture /

Medieval Oddi in Iceland is well known for its famous inhabitants: the priest and chief Sæmundr (d. 1133), later an outstanding magician in Icelandic folk-tales; his grandson the magnificent chieftain Jón Loptsson (d. 1197), of royal descent through his Norwegian mother; and his fosterson, Snorri St...

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Other Authors: Þorláksson, Helgi (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Series: The Northern World ; 101.
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Literature and Cultural Studies.

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Call Number: D410

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Forms of Names and Their Spelling
  • List of Maps, Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: a High-Status Farm at Oddi: an Ecclesiastical Centre of Power and Textual Culture
  • Helgi Þorláksson
  • Part 1 Church-Estates (Staðir) and Chieftains (Goðar, Kirkjugoðar)
  • 1 Definitions and Usage of Staðr , Goði , and Kirkjugoði   Chris Callow, Helgi Þorláksson and Viðar Pálsson
  • 2 Kirkjugoðar and Staðir : the Control of Private Churches and Benefices in Iceland
  • Chris Callow
  • Part 2 Oddi: Environment and Farming: the Operation of an Estate Farm
  • 3 Plants and People in the Medieval Environment of Oddi
  • Egill Erlendsson, Tómas Aron Þórarinsson and Kristborg Þórsdóttir
  • 4 Artificial Caves as Key to the Economy of Early Oddi
  • Kristborg Þórsdóttir
  • 5 Economic Foundations of Oddi, 11-14
  • Árni Freyr Magnússon and Sigurlaugur Ingólfsson
  • Part 3 Textual Culture and Foreign Impact
  • 6 Lœrðr allra manna bezt : Sæmundr fróði as an Authority and Foundation for Medieval Icelandic Learned Culture
  • Miguel Andrade
  • 7 Sæmundr and the English Kings: Sæmundr fróði Sigfússon and the English Kings in AM 1 e β II fol.
  • Richard North
  • 8 Páll Jónsson and His Two Spouses: the Scion of Oddi and His Sacred Biography
  • Ármann Jakobsson
  • Part 4 Literate Education and Power through Learning and Texts
  • 9 Learning and the Establishment of an Ecclesiastical Staðr at Oddi
  • Viðar Pálsson
  • 1 The 'Southern School of History' and Church Reform in the Early 13th Century
  • Sverrir Jakobsson
  • 11 Chieftain-Clerics at Oddi and Their Learning
  • Helgi Þorláksson
  • Part 5 Two Oddi-Men Mirrored in Written Sources
  • 12 The Different Roles of Jón Loptsson
  • Oddur Pálsson
  • 13 Sæmundr Jónsson: a Prince without a Kingdom
  • Auður Magnúsdóttir
  • Part 6 Oddi: Benefice, Church-Buildings, and Learned Priests
  • 14 The Learned Grímr Hólmsteinsson, Priest at Oddi
  • Halldís Ármannsdóttir
  • 15 Clerical Culture at Oddi in the 14th Century
  • Gunnar Harðarson
  • 16 Glimpses of the Medieval Church at Oddi
  • Guðrún Harðardóttir
  • 17 Epilogue: Textual Culture in Context
  • Helgi Þorláksson
  • Index.