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Author Bullitta, Dario, author.

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

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic series ; 11
Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies ; 11.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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."-- Provided by publisher.
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Gospel of Nicodemus (Icelandic version) -- Criticism, Textual.
Sagas -- Criticism, Textual.
Sagas.
Criticism, Textual.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Bullitta, Dario, 1984- Niðrstigningar saga. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2017 9781442697997 (OCoLC)992558782
ISBN 9781442694491 (electronic book)
1442694491 (electronic book)
9781442697997
1442697997