The Karlamagnús saga, Karlamagnussaga or Karlamagnus-saga ("saga

Saga

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 of Charlemagne

Charlemagne

Charlemagne was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans from 800 to his death in 814. He expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800...

") was a late 13th century Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....

 prose compilation and adaptation, made for Haakon V of Norway

Haakon V of Norway

Haakon V Magnusson was king of Norway from 1299 until 1319.-Biography:Haakon was the younger surviving son of Magnus the Lawmender, King of Norway, and his wife Ingeborg of Denmark. Haakon was descended from king Saint Olav and is considered to have been the last Norwegian king in the Fairhair...

, of the Old French

Old French

Old French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories that span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from the 9th century to the 14th century...

 chansons de geste of the Matter of France

Matter of France

The Matter of France, also known as the Carolingian cycle, is a body of literature and legendary material associated with the history of France, in particular involving Charlemagne and his associates. The cycle springs from the Old French chansons de geste, and was later adapted into a variety of...

 dealing with Charlemagne and his paladin

Paladin

The paladins, sometimes known as the Twelve Peers, were the foremost warriors of Charlemagne's court, according to the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. They first appear in the early chansons de geste such as The Song of Roland, where they represent Christian martial valor against the...

s. In some cases, the Karlamagnús saga remains the only source for otherwise-lost Old French epics.

The vast work is divided into 10 chapters, or "branches". Among its many tales, the work includes the following:

• a version of the tale of Dame Olive et Landri - the author says the text is based on an English version; it is an adaptación of the French cha son de geste Doon de la Roche a work also known in medieval Spain under the title Historia de Enrique, Fi de Oliva
• King Agolant - a version of Agolant
  Agolant
  Agolant or Agolante is a fictional character in Medieval and Renaissance romantic epics dealing with the Matter of France, including Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto...
  
   tale from the Historia Caroli Magni
  Historia Caroli Magni
  Historia Caroli Magni or Historia Karoli Magni et Rotholandi , sometimes known as the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle, is a 12th century Latin forged chronicle of legendary material about Charlemagne's alleged conquest of Spain...
  
  ;
• Otuel - a version of the French poem Otinel;
• Af Runzival Bardaga - a version of The Song of Roland
  The Song of Roland
  The Song of Roland is the oldest surviving major work of French literature. It exists in various manuscript versions which testify to its enormous and enduring popularity in the 12th to 14th centuries...
  
  textually close (although with a few notable differences) to the Oxford manuscript;
• the story of Basin
  Basin (chanson de geste)
  Basin is a chanson de geste about Charlemagne's childhood. While the Old French epic poem has been lost, the story has come down to us via a 13th century Norse prose version in the Karlamagnús saga.-Plot:...
  
  - no French version of this tale is extant

The saga was translated into Swedish verse in the fourteenth century as Karl Magnus.