Because of the wide range of sources used by its compiler and the way theological commentary has been interspersed with biography, the work is considered "unique within the continental medieval tradition on Mary's life.
[1] In addition to these, the text makes use of Old and New Testament authors and Jerome, Gregory the Great, St Augustine and John Chrysostom.
[1] Maríu saga was edited in the nineteenth century by Carl Richard Unger.
His two volume edition includes numerous stories of miracles attributed to Mary in addition to versions of the saga itself.
[5] See also Daniel Najork "Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic “Maríu saga” in its Manuscript Contexts" (De Gruyter/MIP 2021).