Ála flekks saga: An Introduction, Text and Translation ...

• Main Authors: Hui, Jonathan YH, Ellis, Caitlin, McIntosh, James, Olley, Katherine, Norman, William, Anderson, Kimberly
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Leeds 2019
• Subjects: Chevalier; Norway; Tristan; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.38645; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/291483

The Old Norse riddarasögur (‘sagas of knights’) were one of the most popular genres of saga literature in Iceland down the centuries, as demonstrated by the extant manuscript evidence. The corpus encompasses a diverse array of texts which can be positioned along a scale spanning from reworkings of t...