Nidrstigningar Saga: Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse "Descent into Hell"

The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the Evangelium Nicodemi found their way to Iceland where its text was later translated into the vernacular and known as Niðrstigningar saga.

Dario Bullitta has embarked on a highly fascinating voyage that traces the routes of ...