Bevers saga
Bevers saga or Bevis saga is an Old Norse chivalric saga, translated from a now lost version of the Anglo-Norman poem Boeve de Haumtone. Kalinke summarises the saga as follows:
"The work is a medieval soap opera that commences with the murder of Bevers's father, instigated by Bevers's mother, and carried out by a rival wooer who in turn is killed by Bevers. The ensuing plot includes enslavement, imprisonment, abductions, separations, childbirth, heathen-Christian military and other encounters - Bevers marries a Muslim princess - and mass conversions."
Manuscripts
Bevis saga survives only in Icelandic manuscripts. It is preserved almost intact in two medieval manuscripts, Perg. 4to. no. 6 and Stock. Perg fol. no. 7. It was also included in Ormsbók, a 14th-century compilation of chivalric sagas, which now only survives in paper copies from the 17th century.Kalinke and Mitchell identified the following manuscripts of the saga:
| Perg 4to nr 6 |
| AM 118a 8vo, |
| AM 179 fol |
| AM 181 c fol |
| AM 567 II 4to, vellum |
| AM 567 VII 4to, vellum |
| Bragi Húnfjörður, Stykkisholmur, MS 1 4to |
| IBR 5 fol |
| IBR 97 4to |
| JS 34 4to |
| Lbs 1501 4to |
| Lbs 1502 8vo |
| Lbs 2785 4to |
| Lbs 3161 4to |
| Lbs 946 4to |
| Papp 4to nr 6 |
| Papp fol nr 46 |
| Perg fol nr 7 |
| Rask 31 |
| NKS 1144 fol |