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- ↑ Kalund, Kr. "Kirjalax sagas kilder." Aarbager for nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie, 3.7 (1917), 1-15.
- ↑ Robert Cook, 'Kirialax saga: A Bookish Romance', in Les Sagas de Chevaliers (Riddarasögur): Actes de la Ve Conférence Internationale sur les Sagas Présentés par Régis Boyer (Toulon. Juillet 1982), Serie Civilisations, 10, pp. 303-26.
- ↑ Alenka Divjak, Studies in the Traditions of Kirialax saga (Ljubljana: Institut Nove revije, zavod za humanistiko, 2009).
- ↑ Marianne E. Kalinke and P. M. Mitchell, Bibliography of Old Norse–Icelandic Romances, Islandica, 44 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 71.
- ↑ Marianne E. Kalinke and P. M. Mitchell, Bibliography of Old Norse–Icelandic Romances, Islandica, 44 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 71.