The Sagas of Norwegian Kings (1130–1265)In The Sagas of Norwegian Kings (1130 1265), Theodore M. Andersson offers an orientation to the category of Icelandic sagas known as "kings' sagas," a genre of Old Norse Icelandic prose literature less known than the somewhat later sagas of early Icelanders and their extended families. The kings' saga genre culminated in three compendia that appeared prior to 1250: the manuscripts Morkinskinna and Fagrskinna and the compilation of sagas known as