to 1280 - Family sagas (such as Laxdæla saga)
* 1280 to 1300 - Works that focus more on style and storytelling than just writing down history (such as Njáls saga)
* Early fourteenth century - Historical tradition
* Fourteenth century - Fiction

This framework has been severely criticised as based on a presupposed attitude to the fantastic and an over-estimation on the precedence of Landnámabók.

List of sagas

* Atla saga Ótryggssonar

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