Lords and Literature: The Icelandic Sagas as Political and Social Instruments

@article{Kristinsson2003LordsAL,
  title={Lords and Literature: The Icelandic Sagas as Political and Social Instruments},
  author={Axel Kristinsson},
  journal={Scandinavian Journal of History},
  year={2003},
  volume={28},
  pages={1 - 17}
}
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For a recent discussion on King Sverrir and his saga, see S. Bagge, From Gang Leader to the Lord's Anointed
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II (Reykjavõ Âk, 1933), pp. lxxxviii±xcv (Sigurur Nordal's introduction to Egils saga)
    The decline is not a general literary one but limited to some saga genres (such as Family sagas, Bishops' sagas and Contemporary sagas). Romances, both translated and original