Issued from a printing press that only the year before had begun to print secular works, this edition of ólafs saga was edited under the auspices of Þórður Þorláksson, the bishop of Skálholt.; Issued from a printing press that only the year before had begun to print secular works, this edition of olafs saga was edited under the auspices of Þorour Þorlaksson, the bishop of Skalholt.