NO ICELANDIC SAGA of comparable length has generated more critical comment than Hrafnkels saga. In a recent book, Theodore M. Andersson summarizes:

 
   The central debate in the critical literature has been between 
   those who think that Hrafnkel is a defective chieftain who is 
   punished and reformed and those who think that he is a consummate 
   politician who has a setback but rallies to recover his losses. The 
   debate is in effect between those who construe the story morally 
   and those who construe it politically. (181) (1) 

His own illusionless conclusion about the saga is this:

 
   Whether we look at it through a moral lens or a political lens, it 
   ...

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