J„ns saga H„labyskups ens Helga. Edited by Peter Foote. Editiones Arnamagnæanae, A, 14. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 2003. Pp. xxxv + 273* +191 + 4 pl. DKK 500.

Biskupa s�gur, I. Edited by Sigurgeir Steingrímsson, "lafur Halld„rsson, and Peter Foote. Íslensk fornrit, XV. ReykjavÍk: Hid íslenzka fornritafþlag, 2003. 2 vols. Pp. cccxcviii + 393. IKR 6,291.

The saga that connects the volumes under review is that of Jón Ögmundarson, first bishop of H„lar in northern Iceland (1106–21), who was locally canonized at H„lar on 3 March 1200. The three versions of the saga are edited by Peter Foote, in a diplomatic edition (Copenhagen) and as a reconstruction in normalized Old Icelandic (ReykjavÍk).
    It must be stated at the outset that both volumes live up to the high standards set by the respective publishers and are invaluable contributions to scholarship. My criticisms do not concern the scholarly content—on which future work on these sagas will necessarily be based—but the distribution of those contents between the editions and parts thereof.

Margaret Cormack
College of Charleston