This study, edition, and
translation (by one of the most prestigious medieval
Scandinavianists in the world) begins with a 160-page monograph on
the development of the vernacular Oswald legend in the Germanic
world and ends with an edition and translation of the Icelandic
Ósvalds saga and of Van sunte Oswaldo deme
konnighe, the Low German legend of the saint (which has never
been edited before) so that Kalinke can show the relationship
between the two. Kalinke demonstrates that the earliest vernacular
legend of St. Oswald is a no longer extant Low German legend of
which the Icelandic legend is a translation.