LAXDAELA SAGA

(13th century; Saga of [the Men of ] Laxrdal), one of the Icelanders', or family, group of sagas. It is the tragic story of four or five generations of an Iceland hero-family from the end of the 9th century to the 11th and in particular of Gudrun, who causes the death of the man she loves but fails to marry. The best English translation was published by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Plsson in 1969.