Also the medieval Icelandic saga corpus is among the numerous literary contexts in which the character can be encountered, and some conspicuously wicked specimens are featured in a subgroup of the genre that dates from the period between the late thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries.
Hana má einnig finna í íslenskum fornsögum, ekki síst eru dæmi um mjög skæðar stjúpmæður í undirtegund sagnanna sem varð til á síðmiðöldum, frá lokum 13. aldar til þeirrar 15.