[1] Veraldar saga follows the common medieval practice of dividing the world into six ages.
However, it is unlike twelfth century European historiography for being written entirely in the vernacular, without any interpolated poetry, and for giving no attention to the area of the world where it was composed, instead focusing on the Holy Roman Empire.
[3] Cross notes that it instead has more in common with European works from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
[1] In most versions, the saga switches to the present tense to when it reaches its final sentence which says that Frederick I Barbarossa is Holy Roman Emperor.
The birth of Christ to the reign of Emperor Frederick I, though the sixth age was envisioned to last until Judgement Day.
[5] Würth summarises the text as "a dry and linear report which confines itself to listing the events.
These are loose translations and reworkings of Latin texts which deal with the history of peoples outside medieval Scandinavia.
Würth notes that Veraldar saga sits on the border between translation and original vernacular composition.
uses the same six ages as Veraldar saga whereas Reynistaðarbók organised them as follows: Adam - Noah - Moses - David - Christ.