- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- List of Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Prelude
- I Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West
- 2 Reading an Office Book
- 3 The Origins of the Western Office
- 4 Observations on the Divine Office in the Rule of the Master
- 5 Eastern and Western Elements in the Irish Monastic Prayer of the Hours
- 6 The Antiphoner of Compiègne
- 7 The Divine Office at Saint‐Martial in the Early Eleventh Century
- 8 The Cluniac Processional of Solesmes
- 9 Taking the Rough with the Smooth
- 10 Office Compositions from St. Gall
- 11 The Development and Chronology of the Ambrosian Sanctorale
- 12 Performing Latin Verse
- 13 From Office to Mass
- 14 The Office for the Feast of the Circumcision from Le Puy
- 15 The Palm Sunday Procession in Medieval Chartres
- 16 Nonconformity in the Use of Cambrai Cathedral
- 17 Transforming a Viking into a Saint
- 18 On the Prose <i>Historia</i> of St. Augustine
- 19 The <i>Historia</i> of St. Julian of Le Mans by Létald of Micy
- 20 The Little Office of the Virgin and Mary's Role at Paris
- 21 The Carmelite Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin
- 22 Large Projects and Small Resources
- 23 CANTUS and Tonaries
- Bibliography of Writings by Ruth Steiner
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Incipits
- Index of Saints
- General Index
Transforming a Viking into a Saint
Transforming a Viking into a Saint
The Divine Office of St. Olav
- Chapter:
- (p.401) 17 Transforming a Viking into a Saint
- Source:
- The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages
- Author(s):
Gunilla Iversen
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The Norwegian Viking Olaf Haraldson (St. Olaf of Norway) was a feared and controversial warrior and king in his lifetime. In 1031, a year after his death, however, his body was transferred to the high altar of the church of St. Clement at Nidaros (now the cathedral in Trondheim, Norway), and from that time he began to be venerated as a holy man and a saint. A wide variety of textual genres include material relating to Olaf. These range from Icelandic saga material through historical Latin chronicles to Latin liturgical texts. This chapter outlines the relations between the sagas and legends and the liturgical texts.
Keywords: Olaf of Norway, Olaf Haraldson, Office, religious institutions, Norway, Trondheim, cathedral, St. Clement at Nidoros
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- List of Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Prelude
- I Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West
- 2 Reading an Office Book
- 3 The Origins of the Western Office
- 4 Observations on the Divine Office in the Rule of the Master
- 5 Eastern and Western Elements in the Irish Monastic Prayer of the Hours
- 6 The Antiphoner of Compiègne
- 7 The Divine Office at Saint‐Martial in the Early Eleventh Century
- 8 The Cluniac Processional of Solesmes
- 9 Taking the Rough with the Smooth
- 10 Office Compositions from St. Gall
- 11 The Development and Chronology of the Ambrosian Sanctorale
- 12 Performing Latin Verse
- 13 From Office to Mass
- 14 The Office for the Feast of the Circumcision from Le Puy
- 15 The Palm Sunday Procession in Medieval Chartres
- 16 Nonconformity in the Use of Cambrai Cathedral
- 17 Transforming a Viking into a Saint
- 18 On the Prose <i>Historia</i> of St. Augustine
- 19 The <i>Historia</i> of St. Julian of Le Mans by Létald of Micy
- 20 The Little Office of the Virgin and Mary's Role at Paris
- 21 The Carmelite Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin
- 22 Large Projects and Small Resources
- 23 CANTUS and Tonaries
- Bibliography of Writings by Ruth Steiner
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Incipits
- Index of Saints
- General Index
