Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Front Matter -- St Birgitta and Her Revelations -- Textual History of the Vernacular Scandinavian Manuscripts -- Birgitta and Norway -- Summary of Previous Research into the Manuscript -- Manuscript Description -- Lexicon: Idiosyncracies, Foreign Influence, and Dialectal Forms -- Language Mixture in Medieval Scandinavian Manuscripts -- Analysis of Language Mixture in E 8902 -- Conclusion -- Text and Commentary -- Commentary, References, and Indexes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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In The Revelations of St Birgitta: A Study and Edition of the Birgittine-Norwegian Texts, Swedish National Archives, E 8902 , Jonathan Adams offers a detailed analysis of the manuscript and its contents as well as a new edition of this puzzling text. The Birgittine-Norwegian texts are very distinctive from the main Birgittine vernacular corpus of literature and have taxed scholars for decades as to why and for whom they were written. The linguistic study of the manuscript is combined with contextual and historical information in order to reinforce the arguments made and offer explanations within a cultural context. This provides a welcome new dimension to earlier research that has otherwise been pursued to a large degree within a single academic discipline.