Norse Romance I: The Tristan Legend (Arthurian Archives)

This is the first in a set of three volumes making available for the first time critical editions and translations of important medieval Arthurian texts from Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Devoted to the Tristan legend. It contains Geitarlauf and Janual, Old Norse translations of the French lais Lanval and Chevrefeuil; Tristrams saga ok Isondar, Brother Thomas's Old Norse translation of Thomas's Tristan, dated 1226 and commissioned by King Ha¡kon Ha¡konarson the Old of Norway; Tristrams kvæd, a fourteenth-century Icelandic Tristan ballad; and the Saga af Tristram ok Isodd , a fourteenth-century Icelandic version of the Old Norse Tristrams saga ok Isondar.