Albani þáttr ok Sunnifu, also known as Seljumanna þáttr,[1] is a short tale (þáttr) about the Irish princess Sunniva who, not wishing to marry a heathen king, flees to the Norwegian island of Selje with her brother Albanus and a number of followers.
Their bodies stay buried until discovered by Olaf Tryggvason, who has them exhumed and has a church built in dedication to them.
Oddr’s work was originally composed in Latin and only survives in Old Norse-Icelandic translation.
Oddr’s work in turn derives from an earlier Latin account, Acta sanctorum in Selio.
[3] Albanus was identified in Norwegian tradition with Saint Alban, to whom the monastery at Selje was dedicated.