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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bullitta, Dario, author.

Series:

Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies ; 11.

Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic series ; 11

Language:

English

Old Norse

Subjects (All):

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

Gospel of Nicodemus (Old Norse version).

Sagas--Criticism, Textual.

Sagas.

Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

xix, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English text, with Old Norse text with parallel English translation.

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 Niðrstigningar 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 Niðrstigningar 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.

Contents:

The Latin Evangelium Nicodemi in Medieval Europe

The manuscript tradition of Niðrstigningar saga

The manuscript filiation of Niðrstigningar saga

The Latin source text underlying Niðrstigningar saga

The textual interpolations of Niðrstigningar saga

The theological context of Niðrstigningar saga.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781442697997

1442697997

OCLC:

992558782