Abstract
The tale known in English under the title The faithful dog features in many medieval literatures, as shown and discussed in the article. According to the author, this old tale can be used as the most useful touchstone for checking the reception of the gnomic sample entitled Sendebar, which is thought to have come from the East by means of a series of translations, most of them now lost. In a former contribution, the author suggested that the Byzantine Book of Syntipas the philosopher does not follow the pattern of a translated text. Now, after comparing the different extant versions of the tale of the faithful dog, he concludes that the Syntipas must be considered the kernel of the literary transmission. Yet there exists a parallel, oral transmission which in Europe is to
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