(literally 'sagas of knights', also known in English as 'chivalric sagas', 'romance-sagas', 'knights' sagas', 'sagas of chivalry') are Norse prose sagas of the...
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Íslendingasögur (sagas concerning Icelanders), which feature Viking voyages, migration to Iceland, and feuds between Icelandic families. However, sagas' subject...
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The Þiðreks saga was an important influence on the chivalric sagas written after it, including Erex saga, Mágus saga jarls, Kirialax saga, Blómstrvallasaga...
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As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern...
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fornaldarsögur tend to overlap with the Chivalric sagas, particularly those composed in medieval Iceland. The legendary sagas have influenced later writers, for...
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Gibbons Saga is one of the Icelandic chivalric sagas. It is one of a very few sagas to feature a magical flying object—in this case a piece of cloth,...
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century). It was also included in Ormsbók, a 14th-century compilation of chivalric sagas, which now only survives in paper copies from the 17th century (Papp...
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Ormsbók (category Chivalric sagas)
Ormsbók or Ormr Snorrason's Book was a large Icelandic manuscript of chivalric sagas. It is assumed that it was destroyed in the Stockholm castle fire of...
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Grega saga is an Old Norse chivalric saga known only from a manuscript that survives as a single leaf: AM 567 XXVI 4to. As it has no known exemplar, it...
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taking the city of Cordova as a fiefdom. Chivalric sagas Hieatt, Constance B., trans., Karlamagnús saga: The Saga of Charlemagne and his heroes. Toronto:...
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Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum (Book VIII) and in Samsons saga fagra, one of the chivalric sagas. Guðmundr shared the same name with his father; Úlfhéðinn...
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Drauma-Jóns saga (the story of Dream-Jón) is one of the medieval Icelandic chivalric sagas, written in Old Norse around the early fourteenth century. It...
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Klári saga is one of the chivalric sagas of medieval Norway. Ostensibly derived from a Latin poem which Jón Halldórsson, Bishop of Skálholt, found in France...
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concern with the conversion to Christianity is uncommon for Icelandic Chivalric sagas. Therefore, the attribution to the original Riddarasögur is seen as...
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Samsons saga fagra (The Saga of Samson the Fair) is an Old Norse chivalric saga. Philip Lavender has summarised the saga as follows: We are introduced...
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Víglundar saga (listen) is one of the sagas of Icelanders. Víglundar saga utilizes the style and romance that also characterize the chivalric sagas. It is...
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reported in the Eddas, Völsunga saga, or the Nibelungenlied. The relatively few mentions of elves in the chivalric sagas tend even to be whimsical. In his...
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Morgante (category Chivalric sagas)
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and Hélène Tétrel, in Histoires des Bretagnes: 3. La petite saga de Tristan et autres sagas islandaises inspirées de la matière de Bretagne, ed. by Ásdís...
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best and most worthy of reading' of the Icelandic 'stepmother-sagas'. The plot of the saga was summarised by Marianne E. Kalinke and P. M. Mitchell: Ingigerðr...
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Sarpidons saga sterka ('the saga of Sarpidon the Strong', also known as Sagan af Sarpidon konungi og köppum hans, 'the saga of King Sarpidon and his champions')...
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Dínus saga drambláta (also known, inter alia, as Saga af Dínus ok Philomena) is an Old Norse chivalric saga, assumed to have been composed first in the...
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The Four Sons of Aymon (category Chivalric sagas)
editions, the prose Quatre Fils Aymon was the most popular romance of chivalry in the late 15th century and first half of the 16th century in France....
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Tiódels saga (also Tíódéls saga, Tiodielis saga, and various other forms in manuscripts) is an Old Icelandic chivalric saga, based on the Old Norwegian...
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Response to Romance', in Les Sagas de Chevaliers (Riddarasögur): Actes de la Ve Conférence Internationale sur les Sagas Présentés par Régis Boyer (Toulon...
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The saga tells the story of a chastity-testing cloak brought to the court of King Arthur. It was translated, along with other chivalric sagas, under...
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Strengleikar (category Chivalric sagas)
1217-1263) for the Norwegian court, and is counted among the Old Norse Chivalric sagas. The collection is anonymous. It has been attributed to Brother Robert...
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Blómstrvallasaga (category Chivalric sagas)
Blómstrvalla saga ('the saga of Flower-Plains') is a medieval Icelandic romance saga. Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus: According to the introduction...
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seems to have been the spark for the emergence of a new Norse genre of chivalric sagas. Haakon also had the popular religious text Visio Tnugdali translated...
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linnormr was used to translate German sources to produce Þiðreks saga (an Old Norse chivalric saga adapted from the continent from the late 13th c.) Lindworm...
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