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mundr’s uncle is found beside the bones of his six companions, the au-
thor comments: ‘þetta þótti mönnum mikil merki, hvé guði hafði líkat
atferð Ingimundar prests, er hann skyldi svá lengi legit hafa úti með
heilum líkam ok ósköddum.’78 The statement that God was pleased
with Ingimundr’s conduct (atferð) echoes the words applied to Guð-
mundr himself when his holiness is first recognized.7"
The priest Einarr Hafliðason, author of Laurentius saga byskups
and Lögmanns annáll, does his best for Bishop Egill of Hólar,80 and
cites the hero of his saga regarding two other churchmen: Laurence
’þottizt aa ij. monnum hafa sed heilags manz yfirbragd. einkannlikt aa
Arna biskupi Þorlaks syni. ok Biarna abota aa Þyngeyrum.’81 Lög-
manns annáll notes that there were ‘margzV me/-kilig/> atburðir’ at the
funeral (líkfylgja) of Abbot Guðmundr of Þingeyrar in 1339, ‘ok
hygg/fl menn hann goðan mann íyrir gudi.’ The corresponding entry in
Flateyjar annáll substitutes ‘helgan’ for ‘góðan’. Einarr leaves us in no
doubt about Laurence himself, who dreams that he ‘þottiz hallda a
heilags mannz beine.’82 The dream resembles one in which St. Þorlákr
thought he was carrying the head of St. Martin, which was interpreted
as indicating his future sanctity.83
A passage attributed to the monk Gunnlaugr Leifsson describes
how Ólafr Tryggvason and his bishop, Sigurðr, come to meet the soul
of Bishop Þorlákr Rúnólfsson, the implication being that all three are
saints.84
Little more than the name of another reputed saint has survived.
The slaying of Þórðr Jónsson in 1385 is recorded in both Gottskálks
and Flateyjar annals, and the latter notes under the year 1389 that his
bones were moved to the churchyard of Stafholt ‘eft/> skipan offic/'alis
ok samþycki allra lærdra manna ok hyggia menn hann helgan// man/r.’
The entry for the next year describes a landslide which destroyed the
78 Stu I 138 / K 1153 / Bp I 435 / Gs I 68.
79 Stu I 135 / K 1148 / Bp I 431 / Gs I 62.
80
See entries for 1332 and 1341 in Lögmanns annáll. It may be added that the inci-
dent describing Bishop Jörundr’s insight (Ls 28 ff.) could easily be turned into an ex-
ample of divinely inspired awareness of distant events.
81 Ls 13.
82
Lögmanns annáll, sub anno 1332.
83 Bp I 109 / Bs II 221.
84 Flateyjarbók, Christiania, 1860, vol. 1, pp. 516-17.