Цитата из Medieval Scandinavia (An Encyclopedia) (New York & London, 1993):
“Samsons saga fagra” (“The Saga of Fair Samson”) is a riddarsaga probably composed late in the 14th or early 15th century. It has two clearly distinctive parts. The first is a romance in the Arthurian style, mingled with motifs from fairy tales, modeled mainly on some version of the romance of Lancelot, although no actual translation into Old Norse is known of any version of the romance of Lancelot. The second part (the so-called “Sigurðar þáttr”) resembles other late and fantastic fornaldarsögur, but shows knowledge not only of Snorri's Edda and older fornaldarsögur, but also of scolarly literature (with information taken from encyclopedic texts, such as those represented in the ethnographic texts of the Hauksbók) in its treatment of the far North and its inhabitants. The extraordinary popularity of this interesting saga in postmedieval Iceland is shown by the existence of about forty MSS.