Summa, still unpublished, readers should consult Leon-
ardi (1956–1957).
Expositio de symbolo apostolorum: This text is attrib-
uted to Uguccione in Trombelli (1775) and codex 2633
in the University Library of Bologna but is not cited by
him in any of his other works. It offers a commentary
on the twelve articles of the credo, thereby constitut-
ing itself a catechism on the fundamental beliefs of the
Christian faith. This brief exposition may be the fruit of
Uguccione’s pastoral activity, undertaken during the last
twenty years of his life as bishop of Ferrara.
See also Gratian, Innocent III, Pope
Further Reading
Editions
De dubio accentu—Agiographia—Expositio de symbolo apos-
tolorum, ed. Giuseppe Cremascoli. Spoleto: Centro Italiano
di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 1978.
Derivationes. Florence: Accademia della Crusca, 2000.
Il”De dubio accentu” di Uguccione da Pisa, ed. Giuseppe
Cremascoli. Bologna, 1969.
Expositio Domini Huguccionis Ferrariensis Episcopi de Symbolo
Apostolorum, ed. Joannes Chrysostomus Trombelli. In Bedae
et Claudii Taurinensis itemque aliorum veterum Patrum
opuscula, Bologna, 1755, pp. 207–223.
L “Expositio de symbolo apostolorum “ di Uguccione da Pisa,
ed. Giuseppe Cremascoli. Studi Medievali, 14, 1973, pp.
364–442.
Häring, Nicholas M. “Zwei Kommentare von Huguccio, Bischof
von Ferrara.” Studia Gratiana, 19, 1976, pp. 355–416.
Critical Studies
Austin, H. D. “Glimpses of Uguiccione’s Personality.” Philologi-
cal Quarterly, 26 , 1947, pp. 367–377.
——. “Uguiccione Miscellany.” Italica, 27, 1950, pp. 12–17.
Cremascoli, Giuseppe. “Saggio bibliografi co.” Aevum, 42, 1968,
pp. 123–168.
Leonardi, Corrado. “La vira e l’opera di Uguccione da Pisa de-
cretista.” Studia Gratiana, 4, 1956–1957, pp. 37–120.
Marigo, Aristide. I codici manoscritti delle “Derivationes” di
Uguccione Pisano. Rome: Istituto di Smdi Romani, 1936.
Müller, Wolfgang P. “Huguccio of Pisa: Canonist, Bishop, and
Grammarian?” Viator, 22, 1991, pp. 121–152.
——. Huguccio: The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth
Century Jurist. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of
America Press, 1994.
Riessner, Claus. Die “Magnae Derivationes” des Uguccione da
Pisa und ihre Bedeutungfür die romanische Philologie. Rome:
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1965.
Giuseppe Cremascoli
Translated by Richard Lansing
ÚLFR UGGASON (fl. ca. 1000)
Úlfr Uggason was an Icelandic skald who fl ourished
around the year 1000. He married Járngerðr, daughter
of Þórarinn Grimkelsson and Jórunn Einarsdóttir from
Stafaholt (Landnárnabók S76, H64). His wife’s family
were descendants of Hrappr, son of Bj rn buna Veðrar-
Grímsson, one of the most prominent early settlers in
Iceland. His father’s family is unknown.
Úlfr is represented in three sagas. Njáls saga portrays
him as a cautious man. In ch. 60, he makes a brief ap-
pearance as the loser in an inheritance claim he contests
with Ásgrímr Elliða-Grimsson. In ch. 102, he refuses to
commit himself openly to physical violence in the cause
of the antimissionary party in the events surrounding the
conversion of Iceland to Christianity. Both here and in
Kristni saga (ch. 9), a single verse of Úlfr’s is preserved
in which he responds to a poetic incitement to push the
foreign evangelist Þangbrandr over a cliff. Likening
himself to a wily fi sh, he asserts that it is not his style
to swallow the fl y (esat mínligt... fl ugu at gína)!
However, Úlfr is best known for his composition
of a skaldic picture poem, Húsdrápa (“House-lay”),
which commemorates a splendid new hall that Óláfr
pái (“peacock”) had built at Hjarðarholt. The drápa
celebrates both the builder of the hall and the mytho-
logical stories depicted on its carved panels, Laxdoæla
saga (ch. 29) describes the hall and the occasion upon
which Úlfr delivered his poem, the marriage feast of
Óláfr’s daughter Þuriðr. Excellent stories (ágætligar
s gur) were carved on the wainscoting and on the hall
ceiling, and these splendid carvings surpassed the wall
hangings. Laxdœla saga does not preserve the poem, but
comments only that Húsdrápa was well crafted (vel ort)
and that Úlfr received a good reward for it from Óláfr.
These events are usually dated, according to the saga’s
chronology, to about 985.
Fortunately for posterity, Snorri Sturluson pre-
served fi fty-six lines of Húsdrápa in his Edda, mostly
as half-stanzas illustrating points of skaldic diction in
Skáldskaparmál. Out of these verses, editors have con-
ventionally reconstructed a drápa of twelve stanzas or
half-stanzas, which probably had the refrain hlaut innan
svá minnum (“within have appeared these motifs”).
There are three known mythological subjects Úlfr
treated in Húsdrápa, and there may have been more.
Snorri states that Úlfr composed a long passage in the
poem on the story of Baldr, of which we now have fi ve
half-stanzas (7–11 in Finnur Jónsson 1912–15). They
deal with the procession of supernatural beings and
their mounts riding to Baldr’s funeral. In Gylfaginning,
chs. 33–35 (Finnur Jónsson 1931: 63–8, Faulkes 1987:
48–51), Snorri gives a prose account of the funeral and
other events that led up to and followed Baldr’s death,
for which Húsdrápa was probably one of his main
sources.
Two other known subjects of Húsdrápa were Þórr’s
fi ght with the World Serpent, Miðgarðsormr, a popular
choice with Viking Age skalds and sculptors (sts. 3–6),
and the otherwise unrepresented myth of how the gods
Heimdallr and Loki, said by Snorri to have taken the
form of seals, wrestled for a “beautiful sea-kidney”ÚLFR UGGASON