Historian Gunnar Karlsson finds that it is difficult to determine the political influence of the volumes but that there can be little doubt that the volumes made a clear contribution to Icelandic poetry.
Historikeren Gunnar Karlsson finder det er vanskeligt at bestemme den politiske indflydelse af bindene, men at der ikke kan være tvivl om den indflydelse, de fik for bidrag til islandsk poesi.