Only one half-stanza of it has been preserved in the kings' sagas.
He was deeply inspired by the medieval romances and sagas; his style was deliberately archaic, based on medieval romances.
Also, perhaps from the 10th century onwards, previously independent sagas and story cycles were added to the compilation...
Icelandic sagas make many references to sea voyages.
Like the sagas, the book relies on verbs and nouns to drive the narrative, with only a minimum of adjectives and descriptive passages.
Accounts of "seir" later made it into sagas and other literary sources, while further evidence has been unearthed by archaeologists.
The saga of the family's rise and fall mirrors its success and failures in implementing the techniques of politica de familia.
However, unless proper care in the community is available related to the individual cases, there will be tragedies and there will be distressing sagas concerning aimless, homeless and ill people.
