Readers who are drawn to Treece's retelling of Njal's Saga may wish to read the original saga; the translation by Magnusson and Paulsson in the Penguin Classics series is widely available.

Other popular Viking sagas include The Laxdaela Saga, a love story, and The Vinland Saga and Erik the Red's Saga, about the discovery and settlement of the New World. Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda is a record of Iceland's pagan religion before the coming of Christianity. Other Icelandic sagas relate Germanic myths and legends. The greatest of these is the Volsunga Saga, a story of a dragon's gold, its curse, and the downfall of the great clan of heroes, the Volsungs.