Icelandic Hospitals, Clergy, and Disability in the Saga of Bishop Lárentíus

Authors

• Ryder Patzuk-Russell University of Silesia in Katowice
• Yoav Tirosh University of Iceland/Aarhus University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54334/mirator.v24i1.141618

Keywords:

Old Norse, Disability, Sagas, Iceland, Medieval History, Medieval Church

Abstract

This study illuminates the evidence for two little-known hospitals for clergy in fourteenth-century Iceland, and contextualizes their existence in larger discourses about disability and clerical identity in Icelandic literature and culture, with a focus on Lárentíus saga biskups.