Tiódels saga

Tiódels saga is an Old Icelandic chivalric saga, based on the Old Norwegian translation, Bisclaretz ljóð, of Marie de France's Breton lai Bisclavret.

Summary

In the summary of Tove Hovn Ohlsson,

Manuscripts and stemma

Tiódels saga derives from Bisclaretz ljóð, but details where it is closer to the Old French original than surviving manuscripts of Bisclarets ljóð show that the copy of Bisclaretz ljóð on which it is based is independent of other surviving witnesses. The saga survives in 24 manuscripts from the early modern period onwards, most originally produced in Iceland.

Editions and translations

Hall, Alaric, and others, , working paper .
Meissner, R., , Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, 47, 247--67.
Ohlsson, Tove Hovn, Tiodelis saga, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í Íslenskum Fræðum, rit, 72.

Influence

Tiódels saga was the basis for three rímur, as yet unpublished: one by Kolbeinn Grímsson, preserved in three manuscripts; one by Jón Sigurðsson and his son Símon á Veðramót, from Skagafjörður, preserved in ten manuscripts; and one by Magnús Jónsson í Magnússkógar from Dalasýsla, preserved in three autograph manuscripts and ten others.