Anonymous, Flóres saga ok Blankiflúr

Ármann Jakobsson (University of Iceland)

Ed. by Ármann Jakobsson, University of Iceland
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.3.4: Icelandic Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Ármann Jakobsson (University of Iceland), Sven Hakon Rossel (Universitat Wien), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (University College London)

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First circulation or publication 1271 - 1273

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Iceland (Country of Origin)

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Flóres saga ok Blankiflúr

is a medieval Norse-Icelandic romance saga, a prose translation of the medieval French romance

Floire et Blancheflor

from the thirteenth century. In 1312 it became the basis of one of the Swedish verse romances known after their patron as the

Eufemiavisorna

Flores och Blanzeflor

. The earliest extant manuscripts containing the saga are a Norwegian fragment (NRA 65) from the early fourteenth century and two Icelandic manuscripts (AM 575 a 4to and AM 489 4to, edited in 1896 by Eugen Kölbing (1846–1899), who used the fifteenth-century AM 489 4to as his main text). Its content, however, is also described in the very popular

Sigurðar saga þögla

, of which about sixty manuscript versions are preserved. There is also mention of the lovers, Flóres and…

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Citation: Jakobsson, Ármann. "Flóres saga ok Blankiflúr". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 November 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41499, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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