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 One prominent example is Erik Julius Biörner's "Nordiska kämpa dater" of 1737. Kalinke and Mitchell's "Bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic Romances" lists the following translated "riddarasögur": The following is a probably complete list of original medieval Icelandic chivalric sagas. Romance sagas continued to be composed in Iceland after the Middle Ages in the tradition of the medieval texts. There are thought to be about 150 post-medieval examples; ten are believed to have been penned, for example, by the priest Jón Oddsson Hjaltalín (1749-1835). The following is an incomplete list: Chivalric sagas The riddarasögur (literally 'sagas of knights', also known in English