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.Marianne E. Kalinke and P. M. Mitchell, Bibliography of Old Norse–Icelandic Romances, Islandica, 44 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 60.
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 8voLbs 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)
References