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Alexander romance

Recensio ε: J. Trumpf, Anonymi Byzantini vita Alexandri regis Macedonum.


Red Jews

Andrew Colin Gow studied the original German language texts and concluded that the legend of the Red Jews was a conflation of three separate traditions: the Biblical prophetic references to Gog and Magog, the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and an episode from the Alexander Romance, in which Alexander the Great encloses a race of heathens behind a great wall in Caucasus.

Sambation

The Sambation was also a popular subject in medieval literature, for instance, some versions of the Alexander Romance have Alexander the Great encounter the river on his travels.


see also

Land of Darkness

In the Alexander Romance, Alexander the Great crosses the Land of Darkness in his search for the Water of Life.