Melkólfs saga ok Solomons konungs

Melkólfs saga ok Solomons konungs ('the saga of Melkólfur and King Solomon'), whose protagonists are also known as Markólfur and Salomon, is a medieval Icelandic romance-saga. While not straightforwardly a translation, it clearly builds on Continental material, specifically the Dialogus Salomonis et Marcolfi.[1][2]

The earliest manuscript, AM 696 4to III, fol. 1, is a fragment dating from around 1400. The saga was also found in Stockholm, NKS 331 8vo.[3]

Editions and translations

References

  1. John Tucker, ‘Melkólfs saga ok Salomons konungs’, Opuscula, 10 [=Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana, XL] (1996).
  2. Ziolkowsky, Jan M. 2008. Solomon and Marcolf. Harvard Studies in Medieval Latin, 1 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008).
  3. Jeffrey Scott Love, The Reception of 'Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks' from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, Münchener nordistische Studien, 14 (Munich: Utz, 2013), p. 60.
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