The Saga of the Confederates

Reading this saga I was a bit confused at first about what Einar was doing but I thought that he was very clever to come up with the "fine" that he did and the way that he used it to tell off the confederates who wanted chunks of Odd's wealth. A few things stood out to me as being indicators of this saga taking place in a different time than some of the others. One was that "At that time it was very common to set up new godords or to purchase them, and Odd new did so (page 467)." I do not remember reading about that being a common thing before. Another difference is that Ospak and Svala arranged their own marriage, which is a departure from the formalized negotiations between the fathers of the couple. I also noticed that Christmas and Easter are referred to as such, so obviously this happened after all the Icelanders started following Christian traditions. Finally, almost all of the action takes place at meetings and courts, whereas in previous sagas people seemed to be a lot faster to enact their own justice.