Adam of Bremen (reference article)

This Wikipedia article on Adam of Bremen is a tertiary reference source summarizing what is known of the eleventh century chronicler and his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum, the principal surviving written source for early Scandinavian religious and political history including its account of pre-Christian Norse temple practice. Its usefulness is orienting basic biographical and bibliographic facts about a figure whose own text is the primary evidence base, drawing on the underlying scholarly debate over how reliable Adam's own secondhand and sometimes clearly polemical reporting actually is. For the finer historiographical questions about which parts of Adam's chronicle reflect eyewitness testimony versus later Christian editorializing, the specialist scholarship on Adam's sources and methods is the stronger reference.