Margret the Adroit appears in a single textual source: the Icelandic saga Páls saga biskups (Saga of Bishop Páll).[1] She lived in Skálholt, as the wife of Thorir the priest, who assisted Bishop Páll Jónsson and managed the see after the bishop's death in 1211. At the time, it was common for bishops to send and receive expensive gifts from other bishops and noblemen. According to the saga, "Margret made everything that Bishop Pall wanted."[citation needed] As a gift for the Archbishop, Bishop Páll commissioned a "bishop's crozier of walrus ivory, carved so skilfully that no one in Iceland had ever seen such artistry before; it was made by Margaret the Adroit, who at that time was the most skilled carver in all Iceland."[3] He also commissioned an altarpiece and "Margret carved the walrus ivory extremely well."[3]
Claims regarding the Lewis Chessmenedit
In 2010 at a conference at the National Museum of Scotland on the Lewis Chessmen, Gudmundur Thorarinsson (a civil engineer and a former member of the Icelandic Parliament) and Einar S. Einarsson (a former president of Visa Iceland and a friend of the chess champion Bobby Fischer)[4][5] argued that Margret the Adroit made the chessmen. It is a claim that US author Nancy Marie Brown supports in her 2015 book, Ivory Vikings, the Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them.[6]
^Brown, Nancy Marie (2015). Ivory Vikings: the Mystery of the most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman who Made Them. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 8.
^ abBrown, Nancy Marie (2015). Ivory Vikings: the Mystery of the most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman who Made Them. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 146. ISBN9781137279378.
^McClain, Dylan Loeb (September 8, 2010). "Reopening History of Storied Ivory Chessmen". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
^"Bones of Contention". The Economist. August 29, 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
^Brown, Nancy Marie (2015). Ivory Vikings: the Mystery of the most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman who Made Them. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN9781137279378.
Notesedit
Páls saga is edited and translated in Gudbrand Vigfusson; Powell, F. York (1905). "Póls saga". Origines Islandicae: A collection of the more important sagas and other native writings relating to the settlement and early history of Iceland. Vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 502–534.
External linksedit
The Lewis Chess pieces at National Museums of Scotland
British Museum: The Lewis Chessmen
The Economist. "Bones of Contention"
New York Times coverage of Icelandic claims
Chess News: "The enigma of the Lewis chessmen"
"Are the Isle of Lewis Chessmen Icelandic?" by Guðmundur G. Þórarinsson (summary of argument)
Chess News: "The Lewis Chessmen on a Fantasy Iceland" (counterargument to Þórarinsson's)
November 26, 2023
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