{"title":"The Cult of Kollumkilli in Medieval Scandinavia","authors":"Courtney Selvage","doi":"10.33353/scf.112315","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n\n\nReferences to the veneration of Colum Cille in medieval Iceland and Norway use both versions of his name adapted to Old Norse conventions: Kolumba and Kollumkilli. Medieval primstaven refer to the saint distinctly as Kolbjørn med laksen ‘Kolbjørn with the salmon’. In the medieval Icelandic texts Landnámabók and Kjalnesinga saga, a presumed version of St Patrick presents Orlyg, a Norse settler wishing to migrate to Iceland, with several gifts intended to allow the successful foundation of a church dedicated to Colum Cille upon arrival. A church dedicated to the saint was also present in Bergen between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, indicating the presence of a cult in the area. Considering this evidence, this article discusses the way in which a cult dedicated to Colum Cille in medieval Scandinavia might be understood through medieval Norse sources, and especially the way in which they emphasise his eminence as an Irish saint. \n\n\n","PeriodicalId":52764,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celtica Fennica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studia Celtica Fennica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.33353/scf.112315","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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References to the veneration of Colum Cille in medieval Iceland and Norway use both versions of his name adapted to Old Norse conventions: Kolumba and Kollumkilli. Medieval primstaven refer to the saint distinctly as Kolbjørn med laksen ‘Kolbjørn with the salmon’. In the medieval Icelandic texts Landnámabók and Kjalnesinga saga, a presumed version of St Patrick presents Orlyg, a Norse settler wishing to migrate to Iceland, with several gifts intended to allow the successful foundation of a church dedicated to Colum Cille upon arrival. A church dedicated to the saint was also present in Bergen between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, indicating the presence of a cult in the area. Considering this evidence, this article discusses the way in which a cult dedicated to Colum Cille in medieval Scandinavia might be understood through medieval Norse sources, and especially the way in which they emphasise his eminence as an Irish saint.
提到中世纪冰岛和挪威对Colum Cille的崇敬,使用了两个改编自古挪威习俗的名字版本:Kolumba和Kollumkilli。中世纪的primstaven将这位圣人明确地称为Kolbjørn med laksen“Kolbjörn with the salmon”。在中世纪冰岛文本《Landnámabók》和《Kjalnesinga saga》中,圣帕特里克的一个假定版本向希望移民到冰岛的挪威定居者奥利赠送了几件礼物,旨在让一座教堂在抵达后成功奠基。12世纪至15世纪期间,卑尔根也有一座供奉圣人的教堂,这表明该地区存在邪教。考虑到这一证据,本文讨论了中世纪斯堪的纳维亚半岛对Colum Cille的崇拜如何通过中世纪挪威语的来源来理解,尤其是他们强调他作为爱尔兰圣人的卓越地位的方式。