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Bevers saga
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'''''Bevers saga''''' is an Old Norse [[Chivalric sagas|chivalric saga]], translated from a now lost version of the [[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norman]] poem ''[[Boeve de Haumtone]]''.<ref name=":0"></ref> Kalinke sumarrises the saga as follows: <blockquote>"The work is a medieval soap opera that commences with the murder of Bevers's father, instigated by Bevers's mother, and carried out by a rival wooer who in turn is killed by Bevers. The ensuing plot includes enslavement, imprisonment, abductions, separations, childbirth, heathen-Christian military and other encounters - Bevers marries a Muslim princess - and mass conversions."<ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref></blockquote>
== Manuscripts ==
''Bevis saga'' survives only in Icelandic manuscripts.<ref name=":1" /> It is preserved almost intact in two medieval manuscripts, Perg. 4to. no. 6 (c. 1400) and Stock. Perg fol. no. 7 (late 15th century). It was also included in [[Ormsbók]], a 14th-century compilation of chivalric sagas, which now only survives in paper copies from the 17th century (Papp. fol. no. 46). The text is preserved in numerous other post-medieval paper copies.<ref name=":0" />
== Further reading ==
* Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)
== References ==
[[Category:Chivalric sagas]]
[[Category:Old Norse literature]]
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