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S U M M A R Y
The end of Árna saga biskups and the cult of St Magnús of Orkney.
Hagiography and ecclesiastical politics in early fourteenth-century Iceland
Keywords: The Sagas of Bishops, hagiography, Church history, Árna saga biskups,
the veneration of St Magnús of Orkney in Iceland, the hagiographic corpus on St
Thomas Becket
This article begins by focusing on the final chapter of Árna saga biskups, specifically
chapter 147 found in the saga’s modern edition. This chapter is only present in a
single transcript of the saga, originating from a lost portion of Reykjafjarðarbók.