Viktors saga ok Blávus

Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus: The saga relates the adventures of the foster-brothers Viktor, son of the king of France, and Blávus, a foreign prince who possesses a flying carpet.

After introductory adventures involving vikings and berserks, Viktor sets off for India to sue for the hand of Fulgida, a maiden king.

[1]By identifying Middle English antecedents for some Icelandic exempla and discussing related evidence for the date of Jónatas ævintýri, Jorgensen argues that the influence of this exemplum on Viktors saga shows that Viktors saga must have been written after the beginning of English ecclesiastical influence in Iceland (ca.

[2] Moreover, the derivative Viktorsrímur fornu rhymes vá with á 'generally considered characteristic of only the oldest rímur' suggesting it's no later than c. 1450, allowing Jorgensen to date the saga to c.

[4] Jorgensen's work partly supersedes the study of Viktors saga’s sources and analogues by Einar Ól.

The stemma of Viktors saga og Blávus, visualised from Jónas Kristjánsson (ed.). 1964. Viktors saga ok Blávus. Riddarasögur, 2. Reykjavík: Handritastofnun Íslands. (Dotted lines where Jónas is uncertain or ambiguous.)