Jóns saga leikara is a medieval Icelandic romance saga.
Kalinke and Mitchell summarise the saga thus:
Composed in Iceland, presumably in the fourteenth century. The saga relates the strange adventures encountered by Jon, a young knight, in Flæmingialand. He is welcomed by the king and witnesses mysterious events during a great banquet and again the following morning, when a fierce wolf is captured. Jon requests the wolf as a parting gift, and it turns out that the beast is in reality Sigurðr, the king's son, upon whom his stepmother had placed a spell. Jon and Sigurðr become sworn brothers, and Jon marries the king's daughter.[1]
Kalinke and Mitchell identified the following manuscripts of the saga:
| Lbs 840 4to (1737) | |
| AM 174 fol (1644) | |
| AM 553 e 4to (early 18th c) | |
| AM 588 f 4to (ca 1700) | |
| IB 260 8vo (ca 1824-27) | |
| JS 641 4to (17th-19th c) | |
| Lbs 1144 8vo | |
| Lbs 1172 4to (18th c) | |
| Lbs 678 4to (ca 1852-54) | |
| Papp 8vo nr 17 II (ca 1650) | |
| Lbs 3128 4to (1884) (resumé) | |
| NKS 1144 fol (18th c) (resumé) |