"Gwyn Jones regarded many of the traditions that grew up around Gunnhild in the Icelandic sources as fictional.However, both Theodoricus monachus and the "Ágrip af Nóregskonungasögum" report that when Gunnhild was at the court of Harald Bluetooth after Erik's death, the Danish king offered marriage to her; if valid, these accounts call into question the identification of Gunnhild as Harald's sister, but their most recent editors follow Jones in viewing their accounts of Gunnhild's origins as unreliable.