 "Dagen", the sister paper "Aftonbladet", and the "Aftonbladets Halfvecko-Upplaga" were owned by the same publishing company with the same editor, Harald Sohlman; "Dagen" was a daily Stockholm newspaper while "Aftonbladets Halfvecko-Upplaga" was a tabloid published twice a week for rural areas.As the structure of the Icelandic version corresponded to that of the abridged "Halfvecko-Upplaga" variant (same chapter titles, no epistolary format in Part II), De Roos concluded that Ásmundsson must have used the latter as his source text, replacing various cultural references with hints to Icelandic sagas, while shortening the text even further, to ca.47,000 words.