Icelandic romance saga
Rémundar saga keisarasonar is a medieval Icelandic romance saga, and the longest of those romance-sagas composed in medieval Iceland.
Synopsis.
Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus:
Rémundr falls in love with a maiden whom he has seen only in his dreams. Carrying a statue of the maiden he sets off in search of her. Rémundr kills Eskupart who claimed to be the maiden's lover, but is himself wounded. Before he died Eskupart prophesied that Rémundr could be healed only by the most beautiful woman in the world. After many adventures, Rémundr is healed in India by Elina, the woman of his dreams.
A detailed summary has been produced by Margaret Schlauch. Among the saga's main inspirations are the Norwegian "Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar", and a story like the fourteenth-century romance "Petit Artus de Bretagne".
Manuscripts.
Kalinke and Mitchell identified the following 41 manuscripts of the saga:
References.
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