The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry

The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). This volume focuses on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period.

Kirsten Wolf is Kim Nilsson Professor and Torger Thompson Chair in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
van Deusen Natalie M. :

Natalie Van Deusen is Assistant Professor and Henry Cabot and Linnea Lodge Professor of Scandinavian Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.

The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is the first handbook of its kind and therefore extremely welcome, useful, and inspiring. Students and scholars are going to discover unedited material waiting to be researched and published. Hopefully, we shall see more editions, various studies on poetry and saints and, not least, on the manuscript and literary culture in early modern Iceland.

Marianne Kalinke:

‘Kirsten Wolf and Natalie Van Deusen have produced a bibliography that will be a treasure trove for medievalists, notably hagiologists. They are to be congratulated and also the University of Toronto Press for publishing this most valuable work.’

Martin Chase, Department of English, Fordham University:

"The scholarship in The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is thorough and groundbreaking. This book will save hours of poring over manuscript catalogues and sifting through boxes of archival material. It opens the way to a whole new area of research."

Russell Poole, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Western University:

"The authors are among the leading authorities on this subject and their bibliographic research has been laudably thorough. The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry brings the account of hagiographic verse considerably further in time and with its companion volume provides an unbroken account of verse-making on this topic in Iceland from the early Middle Ages up to the nineteenth century."