title: Jóns saga leikara
text: # Jóns saga leikara
  
  Jóns saga leikara is a medieval Icelandic romance saga.
  
  ## Synopsis
  
  Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus:
  
     Composed in Iceland, presumably in the fourteenth century. The saga relates the strange adventures encountered by Jon, a young knight, in Flæmingialand. He is welcomed by the king and witnesses mysterious events during a great banquet and again the following morning, when a fierce wolf is captured. Jon requests the wolf as a parting gift, and it turns out that the beast is in reality Sigurðr, the king's son, upon whom his stepmother had placed a spell. Jon and Sigurðr become sworn brothers, and Jon marries the king's daughter.
  
  ## Manuscripts
  
  Kalinke and Mitchell identified the following manuscripts of the saga:
  
  * Lbs 840 4to (1737)
  * AM 174 fol (1644)
  * AM 553 e 4to (early 18th c)
  * AM 588 f 4to (ca 1700)
  * IB 260 8vo (ca 1824-27)
  * JS 641 4to (17th-19th c)
  * Lbs 1144 8vo
  * Lbs 1172 4to (18th c)
  * Lbs 678 4to (ca 1852-54)
  * Papp 8vo nr 17 II (ca 1650)
  * Lbs 3128 4to (1884) (resumé)
  * NKS 1144 fol (18th c) (resumé)
  
  ## Editions and translations
  
  * "Jons saga leikara," ed. by Martin Soderback (Diss. Chicago, 1949)
  