Order of the Bath Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as "Knights of the Bath". George I "erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Military Order". He did not (as is commonly believed) revive the Order of the Bath, since it had never
Chivalric sagas the genre have been Astrid van Nahl's "Originale Riddarasögur als Teil altnordischer Sagaliteratur", Jürg Glauser's "Isländische Märchensagas", Marianne Kalinke's "Bridal-Quest Romance in Medieval Iceland", and Geraldine Barnes's "The Bookish Riddarasögur". Chivalric sagas remained in widespread manuscript circulation in Iceland into the twentieth century. They were often reworked as "rímur", and new chivalric sagas in the same mould as medieval ones continued to be composed into the nineteenth century. Particularly during the eighteenth century, some chivalric sagas were taken to be useful historical sources for the history of Sweden and Denmark, underpinning their imperial aspirations, and were printed in these countries.