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    (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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  • 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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    the tale of Yvain, the Knight of the Lion and of several Icelandic chivalric sagas. It is the only medieval Icelandic carved door in existence and contains...
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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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  • 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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  • Mágus saga jarls is a medieval Icelandic romance saga. It survives in two main medieval redactions, a shorter one from about 1300 and a longer one from...
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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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  • 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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  • (Ívens saga) and Perceval (Parcevals saga). The saga is preserved completely only in 17th century manuscripts. Barnes, Geraldine (1993). "Erex saga". In...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Icelandic readerships for printed romance sagas. Wick, Keren H. 1996. An edition and study of Nikulás saga leikara. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University...
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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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  • most interesting of the sagas which Jón authored, first and foremost because he was more successful here than in any other saga in combining influences...
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  • Róðbert, who is the villain of the saga, also features as a villain in Konráðs saga keisarasonar, making the sagas an interesting example of intertextual...
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  • Vilmundar saga viðutan is a medieval Icelandic romance saga. It is noted in recent scholarship as an early example of tale type ATU 510A, 'Cinderella'...
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  • Hrings saga ok Tryggva is a medieval Icelandic saga about Hringr, the son of King Dagr. It is one of the romance sagas which were inspired by Continental...
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  • Adonias saga is a medieval Icelandic romance saga. Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus: The crux of the tale is the prophecy that the offspring...
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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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  • Melkólfs saga ok Solomons konungs ('the saga of Melkólfur and King Solomon'), whose protagonists are also known as Markólfur and Salomon, is a medieval...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Ectors saga (or Hectors saga) is a medieval Icelandic romance saga. Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus: Composed in Iceland, presumably in the...
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