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Brenna Adams byskups (The Burning of Bishop Adam) is a short Old Norse narrative (þáttr) about Adam of Melrose, Bishop of Caithness and the events that led to his death in 1222. It is preserved in Flateyjarbók and sometimes included as an appendix to Orkneyinga saga.

Further reading

• Anderson, Alan Orr Early Sources of Scottish History, A. D. 500 To 1286, Bibliobazaar, ed. reprinted, 2010, ISBN 1176518542

References

1. Carl Phelpstead (2007), Holy Vikings: Saints' Lives in the Old Icelandic Kings' Sagas, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ISBN 0866983880 p. 113.
2. Brendan Smith (1999), Britain and Ireland, 900-1300: Insular Responses to Medieval European Change, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 1139425331 p. 121.
3. Halldór Hermannsson (1937), The Sagas of the Kings: (Konunga Sögur) and the Mythical-heroic Sagas (Fornaldar Sögur), Two Bibliographical Supplements, Cornell University Press, p. 7.
4. Flateyjarbok: en samling af norske kongesagaer med indskudte mindre fortaellinger om begivenheder i og udenfor Norge samt annaler : udgiven efter offentlig foranstaltning, ed. Malling, 1862, Vol. 2, p. 529.

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