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Author:

Bullitta, Dario, 1984- author.

Title:

Ni©ʻrstigningar saga : sources, transmission, and theology of the Old Norse "descent into hell" / Dario Bullitta.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xix, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Gospel of Nicodemus (Old Norse version)--Criticism, Textual.
Sagas--Criticism, Textual.

Other Titles:

Gospel of Nicodemus (Old Norse version)
Gospel of Nicodemus (Old Norse version) English.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-186) and indexes.

Contents:

The Latin Evangelium Nicodemi in Medieval Europe -- The manuscript tradition of Ni©ʻrstigningar saga -- The manuscript filiation of Ni©ʻrstigningar saga -- The Latin source text underlying Ni©ʻrstigningar saga -- The textual interpolations of Ni©ʻrstigningar saga -- The theological context of Ni©ʻrstigningar saga.

Summary:

The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the Evangelium Nicodemi found their way to Iceland where its text was later translated into the vernacular and known as Ni©ʻrstigningar saga. Dario Bullitta has embarked on a highly fascinating voyage that traces the routes of transmission of the Latin text to Iceland and continental Scandinavia. He argues that the saga is derived from a less popular twelfth-century French redaction of the Evangelium Nicodemi, and that it bears the exegetical and scriptural influences of twelfth-century Parisian scholars active at Saint Victor, Peter Comestor and Peter Lombard in particular. By placing Ni©ʻrstigningar saga within the greater theological and homiletical context of early thirteenth-century Iceland, Bullitta successfully adds to our knowledge of the early reception of Latin biblical and apocryphal literature in medieval Iceland and provides a new critical edition and translation of the vernacular text.

Series:

Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic series ; 11

ISBN:

1442697997
9781442697997

OCLC:

(OCoLC)992558782

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)