The work concerns historical ages from the ninth to eleventh centuries,[1] and was composed in the fourteenth century, among the last group of sagas composed.[3][4] The saga is about Búi Andríðsson, his wife Fríðr and his son Jökull Búason. The story takes place in Iceland and Norway. Búi becomes a chieftain of Iceland but dies in a quarrel with his son Jökul. The tale continues with the adventures of Jökul in the short story (þáttr) Jökuls þáttr Búasonar.[5][6]
^Lönnroth, Lars (1976). Njáls Saga. London: University of California Press. pp. 209. ISBN0-520-02708-6 – via Internet Archive.
^Craigie, W. A. (1914). The Religious of Ancient Scandinavia. London: Constable & Company, Ltd. pp. 42 – via Internet Archive. In the late and fictitious Kjalnesinga Saga there is given a similar description of a temple, which may possibly have some basis in local tradition.