The analysis of the German, English, and Scandinavian renderings of the legend as well as the Icelandic translation reveals that Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea version, which has been posited as the source for virtually all of these, including the Icelandic translation, is not the direct source, for certain deviations from the Legenda aurea version in the Icelandic translation are found also [...] Whether the legends of Saint Dorothy and Theophilus had been conflated before the appearance of their names in the calendars or whether the fact that they were listed together led to the association of one with the other cannot be ascertained.12 As far as the central point of the legend, the heavenly fruits and flowers, is concerned, one is likewise forced to rely on suppositions. [...] Accordingly, the virginal religious life was by patristic theology viewed as the most acceptable state of life open to the woman; the second was con- tinent widowhood, and the third marriage (which was regarded as a remedy for the sin of lust in addition to being the natural institution for the procreation of "souls" to love and honor God). [...] The similarity between the two legends (such as the prefect's or the prefect's son's infatuation with the saint and the prefect's insistence that the saint sacrifice to heathen idols) suggests that the legend of Saint Dorothy was influenced by that of Saint Agnes, although these motifs appear with varying degrees of similarity also in other legends, including those of Saints Agatha, Anastasia (BHL [...] Robertson, who bases her theory on a study of the thirteenth- century Middle English life of Saint Margaret of Antioch, draws attention to the fact that the legend of Saint Margaret (as that of Saint Dorothy) ends with the saint's prayer for women in childbirth, which she sees as underlying the significance of physical suf- fering as the central theme of the text.
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 270.1/092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- PT7299.D6
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- I34 1997eb
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- 1 electronic text (132 p.)
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- INTRODUCTION 10
- 1 The Legend of Saint Dorothy 10
- 1.0 The Origin and Development of the Legend 10
- 1.1 The Legend in the Vernacular 28
- 1.2 Artistic Representations of the Legend 54
- 2 Saint Dorothy in the North 56
- 2.0 Her Cult and Legend in Scandinavia 56
- 2.1 Her Cult and Legend in Iceland 67
- 3 Dorotheu saga 73
- 3.0 Transmission 73
- 3.1 AM 429 12mo 73
- 3.2 The Sources 83
- 3.3 The Translation 85
- THE TEXT 96
- A Note on the Present Edition 96
- De sancta Dorothea 97
- Dorotheu saga 98
- APPENDIX 113
- Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria Cod. 2800 113
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 117
- INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS 130
- INDEX OF NAMES 132
- A 132
- B 132
- C 133
- D 134
- E 134
- F 135
- G 135
- H 135
- I 136
- J 136
- K 136
- L 137
- M 137
- N 138
- O 138
- P 138
- Q 139
- R 139
- S 139
- T 140
- U 140
- V 140
- W 141
- Z 141
