FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ICELANDIC VERSE ON THE VIRGIN MARY The five skaldic poems in this volume are among the finest examples of medieval literature composed in the vernacular in honour of the Virgin Mary. They are part of an extensive corpus of Old Icelandic Marian texts which is significant not merely for its size, but, more importantly, for its contribution to our understanding of the cult of the Virgin in Western Europe. Dated to the late fourteenth century, the lamentation poem Drapa of Mariugrat and the miracle poems Vitnisvisur of Mariu and Mariuvisur I-III are among the earliest extant...