Laxdaela-Saga Sive Historia De Rebus Gestis Laxdolensium

 Kjartan Ólafsson is slain by his foster brother Bolli Þorleiksson. Bolli, filled with regret, holds the dying Kjartan in his arms.

Laxdæla saga (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈlaxstaila ˈsaːɣa] ( listen)); also Laxdœla saga, Laxdoela saga, Laxdaela saga, or The Saga of the People of Laxárdalr) is one of the Icelanders' sagas. Written in the 13th century, it tells of people in the Breiðafjörður area of Iceland from the late 9th century to the early 11th century. The saga particularly focuses on a love triangle between Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir, Kjartan Ólafsson and Bolli Þorleiksson. Kjartan and Bolli grow up together as close friends but the love they both have for Guðrún causes enmity between them and, in the end, their deaths.
Second only to Njáls saga in the number of medieval manuscripts preserved, Laxdæla saga remains popular and appreciated for its poetic beauty and pathetic sentiment.

The first edition of the saga appeared in Copenhagen in 1826, along with a Latin translation. An important critical edition by Kristian Kålund was published in 1891. The 1934 edition by Einar Ól. Sveinsson in the Íslenzk fornrit series is regarded as standard and usually used by translators.^[38] The saga has been translated into Latin, English, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Danish, Swedish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Czech, Finnish, Faroese and Japanese.
There have been six complete English translations of the saga.

• Muriel Press, Laxdæla Saga, 1899.
• Robert Proctor, The Story of the Laxdalers, 1903.
• Thorstein Veblen, The Laxdæla Saga, 1925.
• Margaret Arent, The Laxdoela Saga, 1964.
• Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson, Laxdæla Saga, 1969.
• Keneva Kunz, The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason's Tale, 2008.