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Icelandic manuscripts and a number of later manuscripts, of which only Stock. Papp. fol. no. 1 has independent textual value. The main manuscript source of the text is AM 519a 4to, dating from 1270-1290. A fragment of the saga appears in AM 655 XXIX 4to which dates from
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Gautiers latinske digt Alexandreis
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Wolf, Kirsten (2011). "Review of
Alexanders Saga: AM 519a 4o in the Arnamagnæan Collection, Copenhagen".
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Wolf, Kirsten (2011). "Review of
Alexanders Saga: AM 519a 4o in the Arnamagnæan Collection, Copenhagen".
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The Ethics of Empire in the Saga of
Alexander the Great: a study based on MS AM 519a 4to
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Wolf, Kirsten (1993). "Alexanders saga". In
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Wolf, Kirsten (1988). "Gydinga Saga, Alexanders Saga, and Bishop Brande Jónsson".
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Alexanders Saga: AM 519A 4to in the
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Würth, Stefanie (2005). "Historiography and Pseudo-History". In
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Héraðsskjalasafn
Skagfirðinga, Sauðárkrókur: HSk 452 4to (1780)
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Bodleian Library, Oxford University: MS Boreal 141 fol (18th c)
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Old Norse translation of Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis
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A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture
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who is also said to have been responsible for authoring
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281:(in Icelandic). Reykjavík: Heimskringla.
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240:. Christiania: Feilberg & Landmark.
594:"Stjórn mm. | Manuscript | Handrit.is"
299:. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
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126:AM 519a 4to (late 13th c), vellum
116:AM 225 fol (early 15th c), vellum
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793:Parcevals saga and Valvens þáttr
121:AM 226 fol (late 14th c), vellum
99:Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem
1137:Sagan af Bernótus Borneyjarkappa
902:Flóres saga konungs ok sona hans
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245:Jónsson, Finnur, ed. (1925).
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206:Papp fol nr 1 (early 17th c)
141:BL Add 11,238 fol (18th c.?)
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146:BL Add 24,969 fol (ca 1731)
46:, which was itself based on
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930:Jarlmanns saga ok Hermanns
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186:Lbs 37 fol (early 18th c)
1144:Sagan af Hinriki heilráða
1063:Tristrams saga ok Ísoddar
958:Konráðs saga keisarasonar
821:Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar
751:Flóres saga ok Blankiflúr
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196:Lbs 678 4to (ca 1852-54)
171:JS 390 8vo (18th-19th c)
1172:Sagan af Natoni persíska
52:Historia Alexandri Magni
1165:Sagan af Marroni sterka
1021:Saulus saga ok Nikanors
320:Ashurst, David (2000).
311:Ashurst, David (2009).
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1077:Viktors saga ok Blávus
923:Hrings saga ok Tryggva
737:Elis saga ok Rósamundu
716:Amícus saga ok Amilíus
191:Lbs 373 4to (ca 1800)
181:Lbs 204 fol (1758-59)
111:AM 190 b fol (17th c)
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786:Pamphilus ok Galathea
268:Helgason, Jón (ed.).
166:JS 209 4to (ca 1760)
161:IB 115 4to (ca 1820)
131:AM 520 4to (ca 1700)
48:Quintus Curtius Rufus
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1084:Vilhjálms saga sjóðs
993:Nikulás saga leikara
881:Dínus saga drambláta
407:Scandinavian Studies
1244:Sagas of Icelanders
1207:Úlfs saga Uggasonar
1158:Sagan af Mána fróða
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44:Walter of Châtillon
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92:and before
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31:Alexandreis
1269:Categories
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