The Saga of the Confederates

Despite having been pointed out in the intro, I thought that it was rather evident that this saga was written after the designated, traditional Saga Age. One clue to this is that the Saga of the Confederates has very few episodes and is fundamentally based around a sole sequence of events, which differs from previous sagas which often include many tangent stories and semi-superfluous background information. Another hint is that there are hardly any allusions to pagan rituals or beliefs and also, the Christmas holiday is mentioned, indicating that Christianity had been accepted and infused into Icelandic culture by the time this saga took place. Also, this saga was written rather satirically and with a slightly sarcastic sense of humor, which differs greatly from the other, more straight-forward sagas. Finally, I found that the system of law in this saga to be much more detailed and procedural. Generally, cases brought to the Althing in other sagas seemed to be mainly a popularity contest in which all forms of cheating and bribery were common place. In this saga, however, we are shown that the law is much more strictly defined to the extent that people could find loopholes in the judicial process in order to manipulate the law.
As a side note, I found it rather funny that once Ospak was outlawed, Odd simply stood up and announced to the people around him this new decision and gave a pretty vague description of Ospak which I thought could easily have described half the Icelandic men in that day. I simply thought it a strange way of following through on a such a formal court sentancing.