Rémundar saga keisarasonar

Rémundar saga keisarasonar is a medieval Icelandic romance saga,[1] and the longest of those romance-sagas composed in medieval Iceland.[2]

Synopsis

Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus:

Rémundr falls in love with a maiden whom he has seen only in his dreams. Carrying a statue of the maiden he sets off in search of her. Rémundr kills Eskupart who claimed to be the maiden's lover, but is himself wounded. Before he died Eskupart prophesied that Rémundr could be healed only by the most beautiful woman in the world. After many adventures, Rémundr is healed in India by Elina, the woman of his dreams.[3]

A detailed summary has been produced by Margaret Schlauch.[4] Among the saga's main inspirations are the Norwegian Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar,[3] and a story like the fourteenth-century romance Petit Artus de Bretagne.[5]

Manuscripts

Kalinke and Mitchell identified the following 41 manuscripts of the saga:[3]

Editions and translations

References

  1. Geraldine Barnes, 'Rémundar saga keisarasonar: Romance, Epic, and the Legend of Prester John', The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 111 (2012), pp. 208-23, DOI: 10.5406/jenglgermphil.111.2.0208, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jenglgermphil.111.2.0208
  2. Robert Cook, 'Rémundar saga keisarasonar', in Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia, ed. by Phillip Pulsiano (New York: Garland, 1993), p. 526.
  3. 1 2 3 Kalinke, Marianne E.; Mitchell, Philip Marshall (1985). Bibliography of old Norse-Icelandic romances ([1st ed.]. ed.). Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 92. ISBN 9780801416811.
  4. Margaret Schlauch, 'The "Rémundar saga keisarasonar" as an analogue of "Arthur of Little Britain', Scandinavian Studies and Notes, 10 (1929), 189-202 (pp. 191-93), http://www.jstor.org/stable/40915276.
  5. Margaret Schlauch, 'The "Rémundar saga keisarasonar" as an analogue of "Arthur of Little Britain', Scandinavian Studies and Notes, 10 (1929), 189-202, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40915276.
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