''Bevers saga'' or ''Bevis saga'' is an Old Norse
chivalric saga, translated from a now lost version of the
Anglo-Norman poem ''
Boeve de Haumtone''.
Kalinke summarises the saga as follows:
"The work is a medieval soap opera that commences with the murder of Bevers's father, instigated by Bevers's mother, and carried out by a rival wooer who in turn is killed by Bevers. The ensuing plot includes enslavement, imprisonment, abductions, separations, childbirth, heathen-Christian military and other encounters - Bevers marries a Muslim princess - and mass conversions."
Manuscripts
''Bevis saga'' survives only in Icelandic manuscripts.
It is preserved almost intact in two medieval manuscripts, Perg. 4to. no. 6 (c. 1400) and Stock. Perg fol. no. 7 (late 15th century). It was also included in
Ormsbók Ormsbók or Ormr Snorrason's Book was a large Icelandic manuscript of chivalric sagas. It is assumed that it was destroyed in the Stockholm castle
Stockholm Palace, or the Royal Palace, ( or ) is the official residence and major Crown palaces in ...
, a 14th-century compilation of chivalric sagas, which now only survives in paper copies from the 17th century (Papp. fol. no. 46).
Kalinke and Mitchell identified the following manuscripts of the saga:
[Marianne E. Kalinke and P. M. Mitchell, ''Bibliography of Old Norse–Icelandic Romances'', Islandica, 44 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 26.]
Further reading
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References
External links
A volume containing the Old Norse text (in the spelling of the original manuscript)in the
Internet Archive
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Bevis of Hampton
Chivalric sagas
Old Norse literature
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