Lárentíuss saga byskups: Between History and Historiography

The paper provides an analysis of combined and intertwined discourses within the Lárentíus saga biskups – an Icelandic saga belonging to the genre “byskupa sögur” – in order to identify and assess the position of the vernacular text within Icelandic literary genres and examine its intended readership and its cultural and ideological purpose. The analysis of the different and sometimes contradictory generic markers, as well as the use of narrative schemes, which usually belong to a different genre, provides us with interesting clues not only about the position of the text within the literary system , but also its intended audience.