Sigurðar saga fóts

Meanwhile another young king, the fleet-of-foot Sigurðr of Valland, obtains the father's promise of Signý.

After having been defeated in battle, Ásmundr is rescued by Sigurðr and wins Elena's hand.

[1]In the summary of recent scholarship by Hall and others, 'Ásmundr’s decision [to give up Signý] can be read ... as demonstrating with unusual starkness the superior importance in much Icelandic romance of homosocial relationships over heterosexual ones.

'[2] The saga seems both to have drawn on and to have influenced other texts, making it possible to situate its composition between about the mid-fourteenth and the mid-fifteenth century.

'[2] In 2010 it gave its name to the novel Sigurðar saga fóts: Íslensk riddarasaga by Bjarni Harðarson.