Blómstrvallasaga
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Blómstrvalla saga ('the saga of Flower-Plains') is a medieval Icelandic romance saga.
Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus:
According to the introduction, the tale was told in German at the wedding of the daughter of King Hákon the Old of Norway to Hermann, son of the Emperor Friðrekr. The saga relates how two brothers, Etgarðr and Áki, sons of Duke Áki of Fricilia, become separated while hunting in the forest one day, when a flying dragon abducts Etgarðr. They are reunited many adventures later when they ride against each other in disguise on a plain called Blomstrvellir, the setting of daily jousts for the sake of love and riches. The saga concludes with a mass wedding that unites the various male and female principals from Blomstrvellir.[1]
Among other sources, the saga drew on Þiðreks saga af Bern.[2][3][4]