Summary Scandinavia has often been considered as a peripheral part of the Christian world, with its archbishopric in Nidaros an isolated outpost of the Catholic Church. This volume, however, offers a reassessment of such preconceptions by exploring the way in which the Nidaros see celebrated the cult of saints and followed traditions that were both part of, and distinct from, elsewhere in Christian Europe. The contributions gathered here come from specialists across different disciplines, among them historians, philologists, art historians, and epigraphists, to offer a multifaceted insight into how texts and objects, sculpture, runes, and relics all drove the cult of saints in this northern corner of Europe. In doing so, the volume offers a nuanced understanding of the development of cults, the saints themselves, and their miracles, not only in the Norse world, but also more widely. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction ? RAGNHILD B AND J N VI AR SIGUR SSON Epitomes of Saints' Lives in Two Old Norse-Icelandic Manuscripts: AM 764 4to and AM 672 4to ? NATALIE M. VAN DEUSEN AND KIRSTEN WOLF Mar a, dr tning himins ok iar ar: The Doctrine of Mary's Queenship in Mar u saga ? CHRISTELLE FAIRISE The Mass of St l fr and a Recovered Sequence for a missa votive ? SLAUG OMMUNDSEN The Development of the Cult of Magn s: The Interplay between Saints, Bishops and Earls in Orkney ? CAITLIN ELLIS Bergr Sokkason and God's Dearest Friend: St Nicholas ? J N VI AR SIGUR SSON The Miracles of Medieval Norway ? CORNELIA SPJELKAVIK SPARRE Telling and Writing Miracles in Medieval Iceland ? SD S EGILSD TTIR 'Ok er hann sannheilagr': The Role of Saints in Remembering and Representing Iceland's Conversion ? SI N GR NLIE Saints Across Borders: The Cults of St Gertrude of Nivelles and St Clare of Assisi in Late Medieval Norway ? RAGNHILD M. B An Afterlife for Cult Sculpture from Norwegian Churches: Tradition, Continuity and Partial Mutilation after the Reformation ? NO LLE L. W. STREETON Saints in Everyday Life: Epigraphy as a Source for the Medieval Cult of Saints ? ELISE KLEIVANE