Selected Bibliography

(N.B. This was my initial proposal's bibliography and thus, already out of date)

§ Primary Texts

BRIGIT

Colgan, ed. Triadis Thaumaturgae. Louvain, 1647.

(Colgans' Third Life)--Cambridge, Bibliothèque Municipale, 857; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 485 f. 62; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 505 f. 184

Ó hAodha, Donncha, ed. Bethu Brigte. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B. 512 f. 31r, col. 1-f. 35v, col. 1; Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS. 4190-200 (§§ 14-16 only--Middle Irish)

Socii Bollandiani, ed. Acta Sanctorum. Feb 1: 119-35. [Colgan's Third Life a.k.a. Vita Prima]

Stokes, Whitley, ed. Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore. Oxford, 1890. [extracts Bethu Brigte in comparison to the Middle Irish Life]

GUÞLAC

Colgrave, Bertram, ed. and trans. Felix's Life of Saint Guthlac. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, (1956) 1985.

London, British Library, Royal 4 A xiv; Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 307; Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 389; London, British Library, Royal 13 A xv; London, British Library, Harlian MS. 3097; London, British Library, Cotton Nero E I (part I); London, British Library, Cotton Nero C vii; Arras, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS. 1029 (812); Boulogne, Bibliothèque Municipale, 637; Douai, Public Library, 852; Dublin, Trinity College, B.4.3; Dublin, Trinity College, B.1.16; Gotha, Herzogliche Bibliothek, I.81.

Gonser, P., ed. Das angelsächsiche Prosa-Leben des hl. Guthlac. Heidelberg, 1909.

London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D xxi; Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare, CXVII, f. 133v-135v (two chapters)

Krapp, George Philip and Elliott van Kirk Dobbie, eds. The Exeter Book. New York: Columbia UP, 1936.

Exeter, Cathedral Library, 3501, f. 32v--52v

Roberts, Jane, ed. The Guthlac Poems of the Exeter Book. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1979. Exeter, Cathedral Library, 3501, f. 32v--52v

OLAF

Aðalbjarnarson, Bjarni, ed. Heimskringla. Íslenzk fornrit. Vols. 36-8. Reykjavik: Hið Íslenska Fornritafélag, 1941-51.

*Kringla (Perg. fol. nr. 9 [remaining one page], AM 36, AM 70, Sth. 18 [copies]), Codex Frisianus, Eirspennill, Jöfraskinna, Fríssbók, AM 39; 325 IX, 2, 4to; AM 1056 4to, AM 61, AM 235 (extracts), Perg. fol. nr. 1 (Bergsbók), Perg. 4to nr. 2.

Heinrichs, Anne, Doris Janshen, Elke Radicke, Hartmut Röhn, ed. and trans. Olafs safa hins helga; Die "Legendarische Saga" über Olaf den Heiligen (Hs. Delagard. Saml. Nr 8^II). Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1982.

Johnsen, Oscar Albert, ed. Olafs saga hins helga efter pergamenthaandskrift I Uppsala Universitets Bibliotek, Delagardieske samling nr. 8^II. Oslo: J. Dybwad, 1922.

Johnsen, Oscar Albert and Jón Helgason. Saga Olaf konungs hins helga: Den Store saga om Olav den hellige efter Pergamenthåndskrift i Kungliga Biblioteket i Stockholm nr. 2 4to, med varianter fra andre håndskrifter. 2 vols. Oslo: J. Dybwad, 1930-33.

Jónsson, Finnur, ed. Fagrskinna: Nórges konungatal. SUGNL, 30. Copenhagen: S. L. Møller, 1902-3.

Storm, Gustav, ed. Otte brudstykker af den ældeste saga om Olav den hellige. Oslo: Grøndahl & Søn, 1893.

Norwegian National Archives MS 52, AM 325 IV 4to (disputed), NRA 52

§ Secondary Literature

Abou-El-Haj, Barbara. The Medieval Cult of Saints: Formations and Transformations. New York: Cambridge UP, (1994) 1997.

Adkin, Neil. "The Proem of Henry of Avranches' Vita S. Guthlaci." Analecta Bollandiana 108 (1990): 349-55

Ai, Low Soon. "Mental Cultivation in Guthlac B." Neophilologus 81 (1997): 625-36.

Albertson, Clinton, ed. Anglo-Saxon Saints and Heroes. New York: Fordham UP, 1967.

Amory, Frederic. "Saga Style in Some Kings' Sagas and Early Medieval Latin Narrative." APS 32 (1978): 67-86.

Andersson, Theodore M. "Kings' Sagas (Konungasögur)." Clover and Lindow 197-238.

Aðalbjarnarson, Bjarni. Om de norske kongers sagaer. NVAOS, II Hist.-fils. kl., no 2. Oslo: J. Dybwad, 1937.

Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Annette Lavers, trans. New York: Noonday Press, (1957) 1990.

Bieler, Ludwig. Zur Interpretation hagiographischer Parallelen. Sitzungberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 1974, part 7. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag. 1974.

Biggs, Frederick M. "Unities in the Old English Guthlac B." JEGP 89 (1990): 155-165.

Bitel, Lisa M. Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland. Ithaca: Cornell UP, (1996) 1998.

Bray, Dorothy Ann. A List of the Motifs in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints. Helsinki: Soumaleinen Tiedeakatemia, 1992.

Breeze, Andrew. "The Shrine of St. Brigit at Olite, Spain." Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 16 (1988): 85-95.

Bridges, Margaret. "Exordial Tradition and Poetic Individuality in Five OE Hagiographical Poems." English Studies 60 (1979): 361-79.

Calder, Daniel G. "Guthlac A and Guthlac B: Some Discriminations." Anglo Saxon Poetry: Essays in Appreciation for John C. McGalliard. Lewis E.Nicholson and Dolores Warwick Frese, eds. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1975. 65-80.

---. "Theme and Strategy in Guthlac B." Papers on Language and Literature 8 (1972): 227-42.

Ciklamini, Marlene. Snorri Sturluson. Boston: Twayne, 1978.

Connolly, Sean. "The Authorship and Manuscript Tradition of Vita I Sanctae Brigitae." Manuscripta 16 (1972): 67-82.

---. "Verbal Usage in Vita Prima Brigitae and Bethu Brigte." Peritia 1 (1982): 268-272.

Cornell, Cynthia Edelstein. "Sources of the Old English Guthlac Poems." Diss: U Missouri-Columbia, 1976.

Clover, Carol J. and John Lindow. Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide. Islandica XLV. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985.

Cunliffe, Barry. The Ancient Celts. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.

De Buitleir, Orlait. "Bunus agus Forbairt Beatha Mhean-Ghaeilge Bhride." Leachtai Cholm Cille 15 (1985): 98-114.

De Paor, Liam. St. Patrick's World: The Christian Church of Ireland's Apostolic Age. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1993.

Delehaye, H. The Legends of the Saints. New York: U Notre Dame P, 1961.

Dower, Wendy S. "'Guthlac A' in the Eremetical Tradition." Diss: U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993.

Ehlich, Konrad. "Communication disruptions: On benefits and disadvantages of language contact." Pütz 103-122.

Einarsson, Bjarni. "Frá Þormóði kappa hins helga Ólafs konungs." Íslenzk tunga 4 (1963): 112-21.

Esposito, Mario. "On the Earliest Latin Life of St. Brigid of Kildare." Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy XXX C (1912): 307-26.

Fleischhauer, Wolfgang. Kalf Arnason: Die Berührungen zwischen Heldenlied und Königssaga. Cologne: Orthen, 1938.

Friesen, Otto von. "Fredsförhandlingarna mellan Olov skötkonung och Olav Haraldsson." (S)HT, ser 2, 5 (1942): 205-70.

Gerould, Gordon H. "The Old English Poems on St. Guthlac and Their Latin Source." MLN 32 (1917): 86-89.

Green, Miranda. Celtic Goddesses: Warriors, Virgins and Mothers. New York: George Braziller, 1996.

Groos, Arthur. "The 'Elder' Angel in Guthlac A." Anglia 101 (1983): 141-146.

Hall, Thomas N. "A Gregorian Model for Eve's Biter Drync in Guthlac B." Review of English Studies 44 (1993): 157-75

Hallberg, Peter. "Direct Speech and Dialogue in Three Versions of Óláfs saga helga." ANF 93 (1978): 116-37.

Hardy, Thomas Duffus. Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the End of the Reign of Henry VII. Vol 1. Part I. New York: Burt Franklin Bibliographic and Reference Series 45, (1862) 1964.

Heinrichs, Anne. "'Intertexture' and Its Function in Early Written Sagas: A Stylistic Observation of Heiðarvíga saga, Reykdla saga and the Legendary Olafssaga." SS 48 (1976): 127-45.

Hermannsson, Halldór. Bibliography of the Sagas of the Kings of Norway and Related Sagas and Tales. Islandica 3. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1910.

---. Sagas of the Kings (konunga sögur) and the Mythical-Heroic Sagas (fornaldar sögur): Two Bibliographic Supplements. Islandica 26. Ithaca: Cornell U, 1937.

Hill, Thomas D. "The First Beginning and the Purest Earth: Guthlac B, Lines 1-14." Notes and Queries 28 (1981): 387-389.

---. "The Middle Way: Idel Wuldor and Egesa in the Old English Guthlac A." Review of English Studies 30 (1979): 182-87.

---. "The Typology of the Week and the Numerical Structure of the Old English Guthlac B." Mediaeval Studies 37 (1975): 531-36.

Hyde, Douglas. A Literary History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to the Present Day. Barnes & Noble: New York, (1899) 1967.

Jackson, Patricia. "The Three Holy Sisters." Sinsear 4 (1982-3): 63-69.

Johnsen, Oscar Albert. "Olavssagaens genesis." Edda 6 (1916): 209-24.

---. "Om haandskifterne til den store Olav den helliges saga." (N)HT, ser 5, 4 (19??): 382-401.

Johnson, James. "A Note on the Substitution of 'Door' for 'Beach' in a Formulaic Theme." Neophilologus 67 (1983): 596-598.

Karlsson, Stefán. "Perg. Fol. nr 1 (Bergsbók) og Perg. 4to nr. 6 í Stokkhólmi." Opuscula Vol. III Bibliotheca Arnamagnaeana XXIX. Munksgaard: Køpenhavn, 1967.

Kenney, James F. The Sources for the Early History of Ireland: An Introduction and Guide. Vol. : Ecclesiastical. New York: Columbia UP, 1929.

Kobos, Chester. "The Structure and Background of Guthlac A." Diss: Fordham U, 1972.

Kristjánsson, Jónas. "The Legendary Saga." Minjar og menntir: Afmælisrit helgað Kristjáni Eldjárn: 6 desember 1976. Ed. Guðni Kolbeinsson, et. al. Reykjavik: Bókaútgáfa Menningarsjóðs, 1976. 281-93.

---. Um Fóstbræðrasögu. Reykjavik: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar, 1972.

Kurtz, B. P. "From St. Anthony to St. Guthlac." Modern Philology XII (1925-6):103-146.

Langen, Toby C. "A Commentary on the Two Old English Poems of St. Guthlac." Diss: U. of Wash., 1973.

Lapidge, Michael. "The Saintly Life in Anglo-Saxon England." The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature. Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.

Lipp, Frances R. "Guthlac A: An Interpretation." Mediaeval Studies 33 (1971): 46-62.

Liuzza, Roy M. "The Old English Christ and Guthlac Texts, Manuscripts and Critics." Review of English Studies 41 (1990): 1-11

Lönnroth, Lars. European Sources of Icelandic Saga-Writing: An Essay Based on Previous Studies. Stockholm: Thule, 1965.

---. "'Syvende og ottende brudstykke': Fragamentet AM 325 IV 4to." Opuscula, 4, BA 30 (19??): 31-60.

MacCana, Proinsias. Celtic Mythology. London: Hamlyn, 1970.

Magennis, Hugh. "'Listen Now All and Understand': Adaptation of Hagiographical Material for Vernacular Audiences in the Old English Lives of Saint Margaret." Speculum Vol. 71 no. 1 (January 1996): 27-42.

McCone, Kim. "Beatha Mheadarach Bhride." Leachtai Cholm Cille 15 (1985): 34-60.

---. "Brid Chill Dara; Volume 12: Na Mna sa Litriocht." Leachtai Cholm Cille. Padraig O Fianachta, ed. Ma Nuad, Ireland: An Sagart, 1982. 30-91.

---. "Brigit in the Seventh Century: A Saint with Three Lives." Peritia 1:107-145, 1982.

---. "An Introduction to Early Irish Saints' Lives." Maynooth Review (Reiviu Mha Nuad) 11 (1984): 26-59.

---. Pagan Past and Christian Present in Early Irish Literature. Maynooth Monographs 3. An Sagart, 1991.

Medrignac, Bernard. "Folk-lore and Hagiography: A Semiotic Approach to the Legend of the Immortals of Landevennec." Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 13 (1987): 73-86.

Moberg, Ove. "Olav Haraldssons hemkomst: En historiografisk undersökning." (N)HT 32 (19??): 545-75.

Mussetter, Sally. "Type as Prophet in the Old English Guthlac B." Viator 14 (1983): 41-58.

Nagy, Joseph Falaky. Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997.

Nordal, Sigurður. Om Olaf den helliges saga: En kritisk undersøgelse. Copenhagen: Gad. 1914.

O'Brien, M. A. "The Old Irish Life of St. Brigit: Part I. Translation." Irish Historical Studies 1 (1938): 121-34.

---. "The Old Irish Life of St. Brigit: Part II. Introduction and Notes." Irish Historical Studies 1 (1939): 343-53.

Ó Cathasaigh, Donál. "The Cult of Brigid: A Study of Pagan-Christian Syncretism in Ireland." Mother Worship: Theme and Variations. James J. Preston, ed. Chapel Hill: U North Carolina P, 1982.

O Corrain, Donncha, Liam Breatnach and Kim McCone, eds. Sages, Saints and Storytellers: Celtic Studies in Honour of Professor James Carney. Maynooth, Ireland: AnSagart, 1989.

O Cuinn, Cosslett. "Naomh Brid." An tUltach 68 (1991): 14-15.

O Curraoin, Sean. "'Ag Triall ae on Tobar'." Bealoideas 48-9 (1980-81): 148-53.

O Fiannachta, Padraig. "Naomh Brid (Bethu Brigte)." Comhar 36 (1978): 12, 22.

---. "Naomhsheanchas Luath ar bPatrun." Irisleabhar-Mha-Nuad (1982): 65-79.

O Riain, Padraig. "Irish Saints' Genealogies." Nomina 7 (1983): 23-29.

Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey. "The Aglaeca and the Law." American Notes and Queries 20 (1982): 66-68.

---. "Guthlac: A Study in Literary Technique." Diss: Berkeley, 1977.

Palumbo, Edward M. "A Formular Analysis of Six Passages of Guthlac II in Reference to Felix's Vita Guthlaci." Diss: U Michigan, 1970.

---. The Literary Use of Formulas in Guthlac II and Their Relation to Felix's Vita Sancti Guthlaci. The Hague: Mouton, 1977.

Pütz, Martin, ed. Language Contact and Language Conflict. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1994.

Reichardt, Paul F. "Guthlac A and the Landscape of Spiritual Perfection." Neophilologus 58 (1974): 331-38.

Roberts, Jane. "Guthlac A 624: Lege Biscente." Notes and Queries 37 (1990): 264-265.

---. "Guthlac A, B, and C?" Medium Aevum 42 (1973): 43-46.

---. "Guthlac A: Sources and Source Hunting." Medieval English Studies Presented to George Kane. Edward Donald Kennedy, Ronald Waldron, Joseph S. Wittig, eds. Woodbridge: Brewer, 1988. 1-18.

---. "An Inventory of Early Guthlac Materials." Mediaeval Studies 32 (1970): 193-233.

---. "A Metrical Examination of the Poems Guthlac A and Guthlac B." Proc. of the Royal Irish Acad. 71 (1971): 91-137.

---. "The Old English Prose Translation of Felix's Vita Sancti Guthlaci." Studies in Earlier Old English Prose. Paul E. Szarmach, ed. Albany: State U of New York P, 1986. 363-379.

Rosier, James L. "Death and Transfiguration: Guthlac B." Philological Essays: Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature in Honour of Herbert Dean Meritt. James L. Rosier, ed. The Hague: Mouton, 1970.

Rugg, Phyllis. "A Critical Edition of Guthlac B." Diss: U Oregon, 1979.

Schaar, Claes. Critical Studies in the Cynewulf Group. Lund Studies in English 17. Lund, Copenhagen: C. W. K. Gleerup, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1949.

Schreiner, Johan. "Studier i Olav den helliges saga." ANF 43 (1926): 1-18.

---. "Studier til Olav den helliges historie." (N)HT, ser. 5, 6 (1926): 403-57.

---. Traditsjon og saga am Olav den hellige. NAVOS, II. Hist.-filos. Kl., no. 1. Oslo: J. Dybwad, 1926.

Seip, Didrik Arup. Den legendariske Olavssaga of Fagrskinna. NVAOA, II. Hist.-filos. Kl., no. 2. Oslo: J. Dybwad, 1929.

Sharpe, Richard. Medieval Irish Saints' Lives: An Introduction to the Sanctorum Hiberniae. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1991.

---. "Vitae S Brigitae: The Oldest Texts." Peritia 1 (1982): 81-106.

Shore, Penelope Audrey. "The Cultural Context of the Old English 'Guthlac' Poems." Diss: U of Exeter, 1982.

Silverman, Kaja. The Subject of Semiotics. New York: Oxford UP, 1983.

Stevick, Robert D. "The Length of Guthlac A." Viator 13 (1982): 15-48.

Stokes, Whitley. Three Middle-Irish Homilies. Calcutta, 1877.

Stracke, J. Richard. "Ethelboda: Guthlac B, 1003." Modern Philology 74 (1976): 194-95.

Thundy, Zacharias P. "The Potion in Guthlac B and the Tristan Romances." Tristania 4 (1978): 56-62.

---. "St. Guthlac and Spiritual Friendship." American Benedictine Review 36 (1985): 143-158.

Thundyil, Zacharias. Covenant in Anglo Saxon Thought: The Influence of the Bible, Church Fathers, and Germanic Tradition on Anglo Saxon Laws History, and the Poems The Battle of Maldon and Guthlac. Madras: Macmillan, 1972.

---. "A Study of the Anglo Saxon Concept of Covenant and Its Sources with Special Reference to Anglo Saxon Laws and the Old English Poems: The Battle of Maldon and Guthlac." Diss: U Notre Dame, 1969.

Webb, Vic. "Revalorizing the autochthonous languages of Africa." Pütz 181-204.

Wentersdorf, Karl P. "Guthlac A: The Battle for the Beorg." Neophilologus 62 (1978): 135-42.

Wessén, Elias. "Om Snorres Prologus till Heimskringla och den särskilda Olovssagan." APS 3 (1928-9): 52-62.

Williams, J. E. Caerwyn and Patrick K. Ford. The Irish Literary Tradition. Belmont, MA: Ford & Bailie, 1992.

Wright, Charles D. "The Three Temptations and the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit in Guthlac A, 160b-169." Traditio 38 (1982): 341-43