By identifying Middle English antecedents for some Icelandic exempla and discussing related evidence for the date of Jónatas ævintýri, Jorgensen argues that the influence of this exemplum on Viktors saga shows that Viktors saga must have been written after the beginning of English ecclesiastical influence in Iceland (ca.
Meanwhile, Jorgensen showed that Sigurgarðs saga frækna, first attested in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, borrowed from Viktors saga [REF].