Þiðreks saga
LITERARY WORK
Þiðrekssaga; Thidrekssaga; Thidreks Saga; Thidreksaga; Niflungasaga; Vilkina saga; Thidreks saga; Þiðrekssaga af Bern; Þiðreks saga af Bern; Vilkina Saga; Thidreks saga af Bern; Thidrekssaga af Bern; Thithrek's saga
Þiðreks saga af Bern ('the saga of Þiðrekr of Bern', also Þiðrekssaga, Þiðriks saga, Niflunga saga or Vilkina saga, with Anglicisations including Thidreksaga) is an Old Norse chivalric saga centering the character it calls Þiðrekr af Bern, who originated as the historical king Theoderic the Great (454–526), but who attracted a great many unhistorical Germanic heroic legends. The text is probably by a Norwegian scholar from the 1200s who translated a lost Low German prose narrative of Theoderic's life, or who compiled it from various German sources, or by an Icelandic scholar from the 1300s.