Saulus saga ok Nikanors

Saulus saga ok Nikanors (also known as Sálus saga og Nikanors) is a medieval Icelandic romance saga. Its style is said to combine that of a romance as well as that of Sagas of Icelanders. Thematically, the saga discusses issues of power, embodied by Nikanor's sister's name, Potentiana.

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.

Editions and translations

 * H. Erlendsson & Einar Þórðarson, eds. "Sagan af Salusi og Nikanor", in Fjórar riddarasögur (Reykjavik, 1852), pp. 34-92. Machine-readable text here. [Popular reading edition.]
 * Agnete Loth (ed.), Late Medieval Icelandic Romances, Editiones Arnamagæanae, series B, 20–24, 5 vols (Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1962–65), II, 3-91. [The principal scholarly edition.]