Saints' sagas (Old Norse heilagra manna sögur) are a genre of Old Norse sagas comprising the prose hagiography of medieval western Scandinavia. The corpus of such sagas and their manuscript attestations was surveyed by Ole Widding, Hans Bekker-Nielsen, L. K. Shook in 1963. Their work revealed over 100 different saints' lives, mostly based on Latin sources. Few are of Icelandic saints, with only Jón Ögmundarson (d. 1121), Þorlákr Þórhallsson (d. 1193), and Guðmundr Arason (d. 1237) being candidates. In the words of Jonas Wellendorf: While the sagas of the Icelanders might be the unique contribution to world literature that clearly demarcates Old Norse-Icelandic literature from other literary traditions in the Middle Ages, and indeed other periods as well, the lives of saints connect the very same literature with the rest of Western Europe. These sagas are preserved in many medieval manuscripts. Two notable collections are Kirkjubæjarbók, which is exclusively concerned with female saints, and Codex Scardensis which gathers together lives of the apostles. List of Sagas The following list of sagas is taken from Wolf's The legends of the saints in Old Norse-Icelandic prose. The corresponding saints are listed in parentheses after the saga titles. Material relating to saints which is incorporated into other sagas is listed separately, below. Agǫtu saga (Agatha) Agnesar saga (Agnes) Alexíss saga (Alexius) Ambrósíuss saga biskups (Ambrose) Amícus saga ok Amilíus (Amicus and Amelius) Andréss saga postola (Andrew the Apostle) Önnu saga (Anne) Antóníuss saga (Anthony) Ágústínuss saga (Augustine) Barbǫru saga (Barbara) Barlaams saga ok Jósafats (Barlaam and Josaphat) Barthólómeuss saga postol (Barthlomew) Basilíuss saga (Basil) Af Beda presti (Bede) Benedikts saga (Benedict) Blasíuss saga (Blase) Af Bónifacío (Boniface IV) Af frú Aglais (Boniface of Tarsus) Brandanuss saga (Brendan) Katrínar saga (Catherine of Alexandria) Cecilíu saga (Cecilia) Kristófórs saga (Christopher) Klements saga (Clement I) Kross saga (The Holy Cross) Af Cuthberto (Cuthbert) Exemplum af Sankti Sipríano þeim góða mann (Cyprian and Justina) Díónysíuss saga (Dionysius) Dóminíkuss saga (Dominic) Dórótheu saga (Dorothy) Dúnstanuss saga (Dunstan) Játvarðar saga (Edward the Confessor) Elisabetar leiðsla (Elisabeth of Schönau) Erasmuss saga (Erasmus) Plácíduss saga (Eustace) Fídesar saga, Spesar ok Karítasar (Fides, Spes, and Caritas) XL riddara saga (40 Armenian Martyrs) Af Sindulfo ok hans frú (Gangulphus) Georgíuss saga (George) Egidíuss saga (Giles) Gregors saga páfa (Gregory the Great) Gregors saga biskups (Gregory on the stone) Guðmundar saga (Guðmundur Arason) Hallvarðs saga (Hallvard) Hendriks saga og Kúnigúndísar (Henry and Cunegund) Jakobs