 Scholars such as Gwyn Jones therefore regard some of the episodes reported in them as suspect.In the sagas, Gunnhild is most often depicted in a negative light, and depicted as a figure known for her "power and cruelty, admired for her beauty and generosity, and feared for her magic, cunning, sexual insatiability, and her goading", according to Jenny Jochens.Her parentage was altered from Danish royalty to a farmer in Hålogaland in northern Norway, this made her native to a land neighboring Finnmark, and her tutelage in the magic arts by Finnish wizards became more plausible.