Saulus saga ok Nikanors
Saulus saga ok Nikanors (also known as Sálus saga og Nikanors) is a medieval Icelandic romance saga.
Synopsis
Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus:
Composed in Iceland, presumably in the fourteenth century. After a duel nearly to the death as a result of a chess game at the court of the Roman emperor, Prince Sálus of Galicia and Duke Nikanor of Bár become blood brothers and are involved in a series of tremendous battles in order to obtain Potentiana, Nikanor's sister, as Sálus' bride. Nikanor ultimately marries Luneta, daughter of King Benjamin of Akaia in Grikkland. There are many classical and Biblical elements and allusions.[1]
Manuscripts
Kalinke and Mitchell identified the following manuscripts of the saga:[2]
| AM 162 c fol (15th c), vellum |
| AM 181 m fol (late 17th c) |
| AM 343a 4to (15th c), vellum |
| AM 527 4to (17th c) |
| AM 570a 4to (late 15th c), vellum |
| AM 588 l 4to (late 17th c) |
| AM 948 k 4to (19th c) |
| BL Add 11,158 4to (ca 1764) |
| IB 184 4to (late 18th c and 1800) |
| IB 185 8vo (ca 1770) |
| IB 229 4to (ca 1750) |
| Kall 613 4to (1750-51) |
| Lbs 1502 4to (1880-1905) |
| Lbs 221 fol (1819-32) |
| Lbs 2943 4to (1875) |
| Lbs 3161 4to (ca 1900) |
| Lbs 4488 4to |
| Lbs 634 4to (ca 1800) |
| Lbs 674 4to (ca 1820-30) |
| Lbs 980 4to (1686-87) |
| National Museum, Reykjavík, Ásbúðarsafn: Sogubok (18th c) |
| Papp 4to nr 22 (17th c) |
| Papp fol nr 1 (early 17th c) |
| Papp fol nr 47 (1690-91) |
| University Library, Lund: LUB 14 4to (mid-18th c) |
| AM 576 c 4to (ca 1700) (except) |
| NKS 1144 fol (18th c) (resumé) |
Editions and translations
- H. Erlendsson & Einar Þórðarson, eds. "Sagan af Salusi og Nikanor", in Fjórar riddarasögur (Reykjavik, 1852), pp. 34-92. [Popular reading edition.]
- Agnete Loth (ed.), Late Medieval Icelandic Romances, Editiones Arnamagæanae, series B, 20–24, 5 vols (Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1962–65), II, 3-91. [The principal scholarly edition.]
References
- Marianne E. Kalinke and P. M. Mitchell, Bibliography of Old Norse–Icelandic Romances, Islandica, 44 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 93.
- Marianne E. Kalinke and P. M. Mitchell, Bibliography of Old Norse–Icelandic Romances, Islandica, 44 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), pp. 93-94.
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