Bishops' saga

The bishops' saga is a genre of medieval Icelandic sagas, mostly thirteenth- and earlier fourteenth-century prose histories dealing with bishops of Iceland's two medieval dioceses of Skálholt and Hólar.

Sagas about Skálholt bishops

Hungrvaka Þorláks saga helga Páls saga biskups Árna saga biskups
Two þættir are also relevant: Ísleifs þáttr biskups and Jóns þáttr Halldórssonar.

Sagas about Hólar bishops

Jóns saga helga Guðmundar saga biskups Laurentius Saga
Several of the Hólar sagas are associated with the North Icelandic Benedictine School which flourished in the fourteenth century.

Editions

The principal modern edition of these sagas is Biskupa sögur, Íslenzk fornrit, 15-17.
A number of these sagas are edited and translated in