• The Karlamagnús saga, Karlamagnussaga or Karlamagnus-saga ("saga of Charlemagne") was a late-thirteenth-century Norse prose compilation and adaptation...
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  • Quatre Fils Aymon). According to the Old Norse version Karlamagnús saga Part I (c. 1240), Karlamagnús (Charlemagne) tested three swords at Aix-la-Chapelle...
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    was first known as Oddgeir danski in the Old Norse prose translation Karlamagnús saga, but later became more widely known as Holger Danske, and was given...
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    the saga having been composed in Norway today is Susanne Kramarz-Bein. She has argued that parallels in structure and content to the Karlamagnús saga and...
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    fights. In Norway, the tales of Roland are part of the 13th-century Karlamagnús saga. In the Divine Comedy Dante sees Roland, named Orlando as is usual...
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    Vise (Ballad of Alegast) Middle Danish: Krønike by Karl Magnus Norse: Karlamagnús saga English: Ingelheim: Charlemagne the Robber by Lewis Spencer. French...
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  • Faroese piece draw their material from the saga, i.e., Af Rúnzivals bardaga, the eighth branch of Karlamagnús saga. However, due to discrepancies in content...
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    into the story. An Old Norse version of the Song of Roland exists as Karlamagnús saga, and a translation into the artificial literary language of Franco-Venetian...
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  • language, literature, and culture. She was an editor and translator of Karlamagnús saga, of Beowulf, and a scholar of Geoffrey Chaucer. She was particularly...
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    King Hákon, are Parcevals saga, Valvens þáttr and Erex saga, all derived from the works of Chrétien de Troyes. Karlamagnús saga is a compilation of more...
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  • has come down to us via a 13th-century Norse prose version in the Karlamagnús saga. At the death of his father, an angel warns the young Charlemagne to...
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  • Vincent is the basis for the final section of the Old Icelandic Karlamagnús saga. In the saga, his name is given as Sallinus. Salvius' feast day is January...
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    certain French chansons de geste were adapted into the Old Norse Karlamagnús saga. In Italy, there exist several 14th-century texts in verse or prose...
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  • Tales of the Matter of France were also found in Old Norse, where the Karlamagnus Saga was written in the thirteenth century in Norway; it contains a synopsis...
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  • then the halberd fell to the ground." Even the late 13th century Karlamagnus Saga has a mention: "Þá lagði Oddgeir til hans ok í gegnum skjöld hans ok...
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  • Landrés rímur is a 15th century rímur cycle based on a part of Karlamagnús saga. It deals with the tribulations of Queen Ólíf and her son Landrés who are...
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    confused with St Cunigund, the wife of the Emperor Henry II. In the Karlamagnus-saga the innocent wife is Oliva, sister of Charlemagne and wife of King...
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    (probably 1312). They were followed by a translation of the Norwegian Karlamagnús saga as Karl Magnus. The mid-fifteenth century also saw a Swedish verse...
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  • 2, to Decameron 3:9 in chs 2–4. The saga also draws on the Norse texts Þiðreks saga, Karlamagnús saga, Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka, and Snorra Edda. The...
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    (Jónsbók), AM 162 a fol β (Egils saga), AM 240 fol IV (Maríu saga), AM 667 4to IX (Jóns saga baptista), NRA 62 (Karlamagnús saga) and AM 554 40 fols. 20r-21r...
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  • Astrid von Nahl proposes that Mírman's saga shows some striking structural similarities with Karlamagnús saga. Both deal with a Christian king's efforts...
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  • Margaret M. Sherwood (1892–1961) The saga of Charlemagne and his heroes (1975–1980). A translation of the Karlamagnús saga by Constance Bartlett Hieatt (died...
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  • Old French Crusade cycle, Simon de Puille: Chanson de geste, Karlamagnús saga: The Saga of Charlemagne and His Heroes, and Gloriant. List of Catholic...
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  • Agnete Loth; Povl Skårup (1980). Knud Togeby; Pierre Halleux (eds.). Karlamagnús saga : branches I, III, VII et IX. Copenhagen: Société pour l'étude de langue...
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    has also been translated into Old Norse prose, into the so-called Karlamagnus Saga. The prose translation into Middle Welsh, Pererindod Siarlymaen, is...
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  • Rǫgnvaldr Guðrøðarson (category Orkneyinga saga characters)
    into Old Norse, including those that became the thirteenth-century Karlamagnús saga. Historia Karoli Magni et Rotholandi and Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne...
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  • described by P Meyer in Romania (xxxiii. 597-618). The ninth branch of the Karlamagnus Saga (ed. C. R. Unger, Christiania, 1860) deals with the geste of Guillaume...
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    Barlaams ok Josaphats Saga 1853: Saga þiðriks konungs af Bern 1853: Saga Olafs konungs ens helga (with P. A. Munch) 1860: Karlamagnus Saga ok kappa hans 1860-68:...
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