Saulus saga ok Nikanors
Saulus saga ok Nikanors (also known as Sálus saga og Nikanors) is a medieval Icelandic romance saga. Synopsis. Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus: Composed in Iceland, presumably in the fourteenth century. After a duel nearly to the death as a result of a chess game at the court of the Roman emperor, Prince Sálus of Galicia and Duke Nikanor of Bár become blood brothers and are involved in a series of tremendous battles in order to obtain Potentiana, Nikanor's sister, as Sálus' bride. Nikanor ultimately marries Luneta, daughter of King Benjamin of Akaia  in Grikkland. There are many classical and Biblical elements and allusions. Manuscripts. Kalinke and Mitchell identified the following manuscripts of the saga: Derived "rímur". Finnur Sigmundsson's catalogue of "rímur" lists three different "rímur" based on the saga which Finnur knew in manuscripts in public collections, and reports rumours of six lost "rímur" on the subject. The oldest is "Sálus rímur og Níkanórs", dated to the first half of the fifteenth century by Haukur Þorgeirsson; the poem comprises 593 stanzas in eleven "rímur" and was edited by Finnur Jónsson.