Dínus saga drambláta

Dínus saga drambláta (also known, inter alia, as Saga af Dínus ok Philomena) is an Old Norse romance-saga, assumed to have been composed first in the fourteenth century. The saga is noted for its scholarly, highbrow style.[1]

Summary

According to Kalinke and Mitchell,

The saga recounts the various maneuvers of Dínus, the son of the king of Egypt, and Philotemia, daughter of Maximilianus of Africa, to outwit each other. They have in common the idiosyncrasy of scorning the love of all members of the opposite sex. By means of a magic apple each succeeds in arousing the passion of the other, however. Before the two are finally joined in marriage, they encounter spells, shape-shifting, and various degradations imposed on one another.[2]

Manuscripts and transmission

A stemma of Dínus saga drambláta, visualised from Jónas Kristjánsson (ed.). 1960. Dínus saga Drambláta. Riddarasögur, 1. Reykjavík: Háskóli Íslands. (Dotted lines where Jónas is uncertain or ambiguous.)

The saga is attested in three main versions. It was also the basis for later rímur.[3]

Kalinke and Mitchell identified the following manuscripts of the saga:[4]

Editions and translations

References

  1. Robert Tannert, 'The Style of the Díinus saga drambláta’, Scandinavian Studies, 52 (1980), 53-62.
  2. Marianne E. Kalinke and P. M. Mitchell, Bibliography of Old Norse–Icelandic Romances, Islandica, 44 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 33.
  3. Bjorn K. Þóró1fsson, Rimur fyrir 1600 (1934), pp. 398-99.
  4. Marianne E. Kalinke and P. M. Mitchell, Bibliography of Old Norse–Icelandic Romances, Islandica, 44 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 33.
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