Research on medieval narrative sources in Poland has already resulted in many important studies. Scholars have analysed various types of texts, reaching also for various methods of narrative analysis. The variety of techniques used, although beneficial in itself, has, however, hindered mutual communication and evaluation of the results obtained. The main problems were the adaptation of the tools of analysis to the texts studied. The consideration of genre differences (insofar as we are dealing with text genres) and the verification of research techniques then  is an urgent demand. Two further issues that I would like to at least hint at are the usefulness of this kind of research for historical science, and its relation to other textual studies concerning historical sources e.g. linguistic or manuscript studies. It also concerns the relationship of the narrative to the source as a whole. The purpose of flagging this issue is to encourage discussion on the subject and to propose one's own solutions.