Nitida saga

[2] Ethnicity, travel, and geography play important roles in the saga, and questions of gender and power, while magic, trickery, and deception are also prominent.

[3] In the words of Sheryl McDonald Werronen, The romance begins by describing the maiden-king Nítíða, ruler of France.

She travels from Paris to Apulia to visit her foster mother Egidia, and then to the strange island of Visio, from which she obtains magical stones.

Aware of Nítíða’s reputation for outwitting previous suitors, he wastes no time in bringing her straight to India.

Livorius then meets his aunt Alduria, who suggests he return to France in disguise and stay the winter in Nítíða’s household, to become better acquainted.

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Library, Nikulás Ottenson Collection, MS 17, beginning of Nítíða saga. Copied in 1853 by Sigmundur Sigfússon, Ekkjufell, Norður-Múlasýsla.