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Excerpt from The Life of Laurence Bishop of H�lar in Iceland (Laurentius Saga)
IN the year 1106, the long arm of the Catholic Church reached the little town of Holar, in North Iceland, and there, almost on the habitable extreme of earth, planted her most northern bishopric. Marvellous mother, never satisfied till she had set her puissant children on the frozen if not on the 'flaming frontier of the world! The first bishop of the new See - which was formed1 to relieve the distant and hard-worked bishop of Skalholt, and to minister to the populous Northern Quarter - was John Ogmundarson, the subject of the beautiful biography that bears his name, and often spoken of in the following pages with every term of sainthood. A long line of prelates followed; and in 1267, three years after the com plete submission of the country to Norway, was 1 See [�n's Saga, ch. 19 and Note 3 below. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
