Agnesar saga

[5][6] There was an image of St Agnes at the Kirkjubær convent dating to the second half of the fourteenth century.

[5] Agnesar saga I is preserved in Kirkjubæjarbók (AM 429 12mo), a codex containing lives of female saints kept at the convent.

[7] Agnes also appears in three medieval and early modern Icelandic poems and in a set of four rímur: Agnesardiktur (ca.

1300-1550); Rímur af Agnesi píslarvotti, composed by Eiríkur Hallsson (1614-1698); Agnesarkvæði (ca.

[8] A comprehensive bibliography can be found in Wolf's The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose.