Bishops' saga
The bishops' saga is a genre of medieval Icelandic sagas, mostly thirteenth- and earlier fourteenth-century prose histories dealing with bishops of Iceland's two medieval dioceses of Skálholt and Hólar.Sagas about Skálholt bishops
- Hungrvaka
- Þorláks saga helga
- Páls saga biskups
- Árna saga biskups
Two þættir are also relevant: Ísleifs þáttr biskups and Jóns þáttr Halldórssonar.Sagas about Hólar bishops
Several of the Hólar sagas are associated with the North Icelandic Benedictine School which flourished in the fourteenth century.Editions