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- Title
Birgitta and Bernard: Two Saints and Five Old Swedish Fragments in the Danish National Archives.
- Authors
Adams, Jonathan
- Abstract
The Danish National Archives in Copenhagen houses several thousand manuscript fragments, the remains of numerous works that were cut up and used in the bindings of later books. The majority of these fragments are written in Latin, Middle Low German, or Danish, although a few in Old Swedish also survive. Five of these Old Swedish fragments are published and discussed in this article. They contain parts of two of St Birgitta's Revelations (Liber Caelestis and Revelationes Extravagantes) and of St Bernard's A Rule of Good Life (Ad sororem modus bene vivendi in christianam religionem). The Birgittine texts are from an early stage of the retranslation process when compared to other extant versions and include several unique wordings that demonstrate the specific use of the original manuscript in a monastic environment. The Bernard fragments are one of just two extant versions and may predate the version in Stockholm, Royal Library, A 9; as such, they are an important witness to the propagation of the saint's writings in Sweden.
- Subjects
BRIDGET, of Sweden, Saint, ca. 1303-1373; BERNARD, de Menthon, Saint, d. 1081; DENMARK. Rigsarkivet; HISTORY of manuscripts; MONASTIC &; religious life in literature
- Publication
European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, 2017, Vol 47, Issue 2, p263
- ISSN
2191-9399
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ejss-2017-0018