42:, who after being adopted by a humble couple makes his way in the world and ends up conquering and acquiring many lands through three successive marriages. This second part is linked to the first as Samson sends the chastened Kvintalín to steal a magic cloak from Sigurðr at the end of his life. Kvintalín succeeds and kills the now aged Sigurðr in the process, only to be subsequently tracked down and killed by Sigurðr's son, Úlfr. Samson, nevertheless, comes into possession of the magic cloak, and any residual animosity between the original owners and the new ones is smoothed out by a series of marriages.
59:, but notable for its inclusion of material from a range of learned texts. Lockey writes that: "The saga's eclectic character is perhaps its most interesting feature, for it demonstrates that the author had wide access to a variety of foreign sources from which many of the motifs were culled." The saga is also notable for its intertextual reference to
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We are introduced to Samson, son of King Artús, who falls in love with Valentína, a princess, while she is kept as a hostage at his father's court. The saga is divided into two parts, the first of which takes place mostly in the
British Isles and describes the vicissitudes of Samson's search for the
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The saga is preserved complete in only one medieval manuscript, AM 343a 4to which dates to the fifteenth century. The oldest manuscript of the saga, also from the fifteenth century, is AM 589b 4to, which survives as two fragments. There are around forty post-medieval manuscripts of the saga, which
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In the first part of the saga, Samson falls in love with
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589:Flóres saga konungs ok sona hans
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645:Konráðs saga keisarasonar
508:Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar
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859:Sagan af Natoni persíska
40:Goðmundr of Glæsisvellir
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603:Grega saga
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