The twelfth-century vita of St Olav, the Norwegian King Olav Haraldsson, is an essential text for the earliest Norwegian literature and culture. The different versions of the hagiographic dossier are comprehensively interpreted and contextualised, and for the first time completely in a critical edition presented.

Lenka Jirousková, Dr. (1971), is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Medieval Latin (University of Freiburg). Her principal research interests include hagiography and visionary literature, textual and manuscript transmission and its contextualisation, editing medieval texts as well as Latin and Old Czech literature in medieval Bohemia.