The Burning of Bishop Adam: perspectives of a murder on the Norse-Scottish border
In 1222, Adam, bishop of Caithness, was murdered by a group of Caithness landholders. Although it appears in a fourteenth century manuscript, the Old Norse text Brenna Adams Byskups (The Burning of Bishop Adam) originated in Iceland in the 1230s. It provides a Caithness-based perspective on Adam’s d...
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| Language: | English |
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University Press
2021
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The Innes review
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 101-127 |
| Further subjects: | B
Scandinavian Scotland
B Medieval B Earldom of Orkney B Icelandic sagas B Church History B Caithness |
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