Abstract
This study discusses whether there are reasons to believe that saints’ legends in Ireland and Britain contributed to the import and formation of legends in Norway and Iceland. Church dedications near or within settlement-areas are pointed out, in Orkney/Caithness, the Hebrides, Ireland, Man and Cumbria. In many of these Norse-speaking people had their first encounters with christianity long before it was introduced in Norway by the christian lords and their English missionaries. The point of departure for this survey is the legend of St Sunniva, the earliest saint we know of in the Norwegian and Icelandic tradition of saints. This is the only legend extant of a saint from the colonies in the West. Three of the main features constituting Sunniva’s legend are represented by the legends of Triduana (Tredwell, Trollhøna), Donnán, Mo Nenna, and Bega.
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