Brenna Adams byskups (The Burning of Bishop Adam[1]) is a short Old Norse narrative (þáttr) about Adam of Melrose, Bishop of Caithness and the events that led to his death in 1222.[2] It is preserved in Flateyjarbók and sometimes included as an appendix to Orkneyinga saga.[3][4]

Further reading

  • Anderson, Alan Orr Early Sources of Scottish History, A. D. 500 To 1286, Bibliobazaar, ed. reprinted, 2010, ISBN 1176518542

References

  1. ↑ Carl Phelpstead (2007), Holy Vikings: Saints' Lives in the Old Icelandic Kings' Sagas, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ISBN 0866983880 p. 113.
  2. ↑ Brendan Smith (1999), Britain and Ireland, 900-1300: Insular Responses to Medieval European Change, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 1139425331 p. 121.
  3. ↑ Halldór Hermannsson (1937), The Sagas of the Kings: (Konunga Sögur) and the Mythical-heroic Sagas (Fornaldar Sögur), Two Bibliographical Supplements, Cornell University Press, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Flateyjarbok: en samling af norske kongesagaer med indskudte mindre fortaellinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler : udgiven efter offentlig foranstaltning, ed. Malling, 1862, Vol. 2, p. 529.


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