Chivalric sagas

Old Norse chivalric saga

Morgante (sometimes also called , the name given to the complete 28-canto, 30,080-line edition published in 1483) is an Italian romantic epic by Luigi Pulci which appeared in its final form in 1483; a now-lost 23-canto version likely appeared in late 1478; two other 23-canto versions were published in 1481 and 1482. The work was commissioned by Lucrezia Tornabuoni. thumb|Portrait of Luigi Pulci

medieval tale

late-thirteenth-century Norse prose compilation and adaptation dealing with Charlemagne and his paladins

genre of Norse prose saga

Strengleikar (English: Stringed Instruments) is a collection of twenty-one Old Norse prose tales based on the Old French Lais of Marie de France. It is one of the literary works commissioned by King Haakon IV of Norway (r. 1217-1263) for the Norwegian court, and is counted among the Old Norse Chivalric sagas. The collection is anonymous. It has been attributed to Brother Robert, a cleric who adapted several French works into Norse under Haakon, the best known of which is Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar (a Norse version of the Tristan and Iseult legend), but there is also reason to think that the col