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Strengleikar
Strengleikar (English: Stringed Instruments) is a collection of twenty-one Old Norse prose tales based on the Old French "Lais" of Marie de France. It is one of the literary works commissioned by King Haakon IV of Norway (r. 1217-1263) for the Norwegian court, and is counted among the Old Norse Chivalric sagas. The collection is anonymous. It has been attributed to Brother Robert, a cleric who adapted several French works into Norse under Haakon, the best known of which is "
legendary saga of St Olaf, "Óláfs saga ins helga", in Upps DG 8 II (ca. 1225–1250)
- "Strengleikar" in Upps DG 4–7 4to (ca. 1270)
- "Landslǫg Magnúss Hákonarsonar" in the above-mentioned ms. Holm perg 34 4to (ca. 1276–1300)
These four mss. have been annotated morphologically (adding the lemma and the grammatical form of each word) as well as syntactically. The syntactic annotation is based on dependency analysis, as this has been