Cecilíu saga
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Cecilíu saga is an Old Norse-Icelandic saints' saga that recounts the legend of St Cecilia. It is preserved in three manuscripts, but is only complete in Kirkjubæjarbók.[1] The version of the saga preserved in Stock. Perg. fol no. 2 includes two Icelandic miracles of St Cecilia.[2][3] These are notable for being one of the very few examples of miracles performed by non-native saints, and as an example of early hagiographic composition in Iceland rather than translations from Latin exemplars.[4] Cormack notes that while these miracles may be late compositions, "they give the impression of being genuine records of an early cultus".[2]
Cecilia's feast day November 22 was adopted as Holy Day of Obligation in Iceland in 1179 under Þorlákr Þórhallsson.[2]
The saga also includes an account of the passions of Sts Tiburtius and Valerian.[5]
Cecilia appears in three Old Norse-Icelandic poems: Vísur Cecilíu (ca. 1300-1500); Cecilíudiktur (ca. 1400-1550); and the fourteenth-century Heilagra meyja drápa (stanzas 18-21).[6]