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A Miracle of St. Sunniva in AM 764 4to

A Miracle of St. Sunniva in AM 764 4to Natalie Van Deusen, University of Alberta AM 764 4to, a parchment manuscript from Skagafjörður in Northern Iceland composed ca. 1376–86, comprises forty-eight leaves written in a variety of hands. t he codex—which was apparently compiled for the use of the nuns at the b enedictine convent at Reynistaður in Northern Iceland—can be divided into two parts. Part I (fol. 1–23v) is a description of the world’s history organized by Augustine’s six ages of the world and the two ages yet to come. t he remainder of the manuscript (Part II) is a miscellany and includes exempla, extracts from the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, an account of Cyrus the Great, an Icelandic version of the dream manual Somniale Danielis, writings of the Church Fathers, lists of English rulers based on Breta s gurǫ, a biography of b ishop Jón Halldórsson, Chapters 67–71 from Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta, a text of Upphaf allra frásagna, a description of the world, genealogies, annals, and epitomes of the lives and miracles of select saints. One of the miracles related in the miscellany section of AM 764 4to involves the Norwegian Saint Sunniva and her companions at Selja. t he text, which relates http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology University of Illinois Press

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Natalie Van Deusen, University of Alberta AM 764 4to, a parchment manuscript from Skagafjörður in Northern Iceland composed ca. 1376–86, comprises forty-eight leaves written in a variety of hands. t he codex—which was apparently compiled for the use of the nuns at the b enedictine convent at Reynistaður in Northern Iceland—can be divided into two parts. Part I (fol. 1–23v) is a description of the world’s history organized by Augustine’s six ages of the world and the two ages yet to come. t he remainder of the manuscript (Part II) is a miscellany and includes exempla, extracts from the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, an account of Cyrus the Great, an Icelandic version of the dream manual Somniale Danielis, writings of the Church Fathers, lists of English rulers based on Breta s gurǫ, a biography of b ishop Jón Halldórsson, Chapters 67–71 from Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta, a text of Upphaf allra frásagna, a description of the world, genealogies, annals, and epitomes of the lives and miracles of select saints. One of the miracles related in the miscellany section of AM 764 4to involves the Norwegian Saint Sunniva and her companions at Selja. t he text, which relates

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Published: Apr 14, 2018

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