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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Níkulás Bergsson — NíkVII

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Vol. 3, 299 —  — ed. Beatrice La Farge

Poetry

Biography

Beatrice La Farge 2017, ‘(Biography of) Níkulás Bergsson’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 299.

Modern scholars consider the Icelandic Benedictine monk Níkulás Bergsson (d. 1159 or 1160) to be the ‘Abbot Nikulás’ who wrote Leiðarvísir (‘Guide pointing out the way’), a guidebook for pilgrims about the routes from Northern Europe to Rome and Jerusalem (Hill 1993a, 390). Níkulás became the abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Þverá (Munkaþverá, founded 1155) in Northern Iceland (Eyjafjörður).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Hill, Joyce. 1993a. ‘Leiðarvísir (“Guide”)’. In MedS, 390-1.

other information

Níkulás Bergsson (Ník)

12th century

Skj AI, 560; BI, 546-7

volume 7

main editor: Beatrice La Farge

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