Jóns saga leikara

Jóns saga leikara is a medieval Icelandic romance saga.

Synopsis

Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus:

Composed in Iceland, presumably in the fourteenth century. The saga relates the strange adventures encountered by Jon, a young knight, in Flæmingialand. He is welcomed by the king and witnesses mysterious events during a great banquet and again the following morning, when a fierce wolf is captured. Jon requests the wolf as a parting gift, and it turns out that the beast is in reality Sigurðr, the king's son, upon whom his stepmother had placed a spell. Jon and Sigurðr become sworn brothers, and Jon marries the king's daughter.^[1]

Manuscripts

Kalinke and Mitchell identified the following manuscripts of the saga:^[1]

Lbs 840 4to (1737)

AM 174 fol (1644)

AM 553 e 4to (early 18th c)

AM 588 f 4to (ca 1700)

IB 260 8vo (ca 1824-27)

JS 641 4to (17th-19th c)

Lbs 1144 8vo

Lbs 1172 4to (18th c)

Lbs 678 4to (ca 1852-54)

Papp 8vo nr 17 II (ca 1650)

Lbs 3128 4to (1884) (resumé)

NKS 1144 fol (18th c) (resumé)

Editions and translations

"Jons saga leikara," ed. by Martin Soderback (Diss. Chicago, 1949)

References

^ ^a ^b Marianne E. Kalinke and P. M. Mitchell, Bibliography of Old Norse–Icelandic Romances, Islandica, 44 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 60.

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