Jóns saga leikara
# Jóns saga leikara

Jóns saga leikara is a medieval Icelandic romance saga.

## Synopsis

Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus:

   Composed in Iceland, presumably in the fourteenth century. The saga relates the strange adventures encountered by Jon, a young knight, in Flæmingialand. He is welcomed by the king and witnesses mysterious events during a great banquet and again the following morning, when a fierce wolf is captured. Jon requests the wolf as a parting gift, and it turns out that the beast is in reality Sigurðr, the king's son, upon whom his stepmother had placed a spell. Jon and Sigurðr become sworn brothers, and Jon marries the king's daughter.

## Manuscripts

Kalinke and Mitchell identified the following manuscripts of the saga:

* Lbs 840 4to (1737)
* AM 174 fol (1644)
* AM 553 e 4to (early 18th c)
* AM 588 f 4to (ca 1700)
* IB 260 8vo (ca 1824-27)
* JS 641 4to (17th-19th c)
* Lbs 1144 8vo
* Lbs 1172 4to (18th c)
* Lbs 678 4to (ca 1852-54)
* Papp 8vo nr 17 II (ca 1650)
* Lbs 3128 4to (1884) (resumé)
* NKS 1144 fol (18th c) (resumé)

## Editions and translations

* "Jons saga leikara," ed. by Martin Soderback (Diss. Chicago, 1949)
