This is attributed to the concerns of the North Icelandic Benedictine School, the presence of which is marked in the manuscript, and to the wider intellectual atmosphere of fourteenth century Iceland in which saints' lives and romances were possibly written by the same people.
Þessi vilji og forvitni eru rekin til norðlenska Benediktínaskólans, handritið ber einkenni hans og einkenni þess lærdómsanda sem var ríkjandi á Íslandi á fjórtándu öld, þar sem dýrlingasögur og rómansar voru mögulega rituð af sömu einstaklingum.