Thómas saga Erkibyskups

Thómas saga Erkibyskups (English: Saga of Archbishop Thomas) is an Icelandic saga on Saint Thomas Becket written in the 14th century and based on earlier sources: a now lost "Life" by Robert of Cricklade which was written soon after Becket's murder, a "Life" by Benet of St Albans, and an Icelandic translation of the "Quadrilogus" (a composite life based on 12th-century biographers). It provides some unique details, like Thomas speaking with a stammer; these details mostly come from Robert's "Life", which also was a source for Benet's.[1]

Citations
  1. Staunton Lives of Thomas Becket p. 11
gollark: ```This egg feels like all future spacetime trajectories lead into it.```
gollark: GϘn.
gollark: Revised description:```Mana courses through this glassy egg, producing a beautiful glow - it's very reflective, almost metallic. It has a red gleam, too, and smells faintly like brine. It shimmers like gold, and it seems as if time is distorted around it. It is much smaller than the other eggs, and looks like lots of pieces of paper folded together and smelling faintly like cheese. It occupies every point in the spacetime continuum.```
gollark: Oh, forgot it.
gollark: Reminder: they'll all be omnidragons.

References
  • Staunton, Michael (2001). "Introduction". The Lives of Thomas Becket: Selected Sources Translated and annotated by Michael Staunton. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. pp. 1–39. ISBN 0-7190-5455-9.

Further reading
  • Thomasskinna: Gl. kgl. saml. 1008 fol. in the Royal Library, Copenhagen ; edited by Agnete Loth. (Early Icelandic Manuscripts in Facsimile; vol. 6.) Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1964
  • Thómas saga erkibyskups: A life of Archbishop Thomas Becket, in Icelandic; with English translation, notes and glossary; edited by Eiríkr Magnusson. 2 vols. London: Longmans, 1875-83
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