II
Matter and Form
| The Sagas are not pure fiction | 184 |
| Difficulty of giving form to genealogical details | 185 |
| Miscellaneous incidents | 186 |
| Literary value of the historical basis—the characters well known and recognisable | 187 |
| The coherent Sagas—the tragic motive | 189 |
| Plan of Njála of Laxdæla of Egils Saga | 190 191 192 |
| Vápnfirðinga Saga, a story of two generations | 193 |
| Víga-Glúms Saga, a biography without tragedy | 193 |
| Reykdæla Saga | 194 |
| Grettis Saga and Gísla Saga clearly worked out | 195 |
| Passages of romance in these histories | 196 |
| Hrafnkels Saga Freysgoða, a tragic idyll, well proportioned | 198 |
| Great differences of scale among the Sagas—analogies with the heroic poems | 198 |