Helga the Fair was an Icelandic woman whose life and relationships are described in Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu.
Helga is trapped in a love triangle with Gunnlaugr Ormstunga and Hrafn Önundarson, which eventually leads to the men's deaths.
Thorstein decides that if his wife has a baby girl, she must leave the child to die of exposure, so this prophecy does not come to pass.
Thorstein then travels to the Althing and Jofrid has a shepherd girl, Thorvard, take the baby to Egil's daughter, and Helga's aunt, Thorgerd at Hjardarholt.
Thorstein then takes Helga home to his farm at Borg and she was "cherished by her father and mother and all her relatives".
"[1] Gunnlaug, meanwhile, is forced by honor to stay at the court of King Ethelred, which costs him Helga to his rival Hrafn.
"[1] Helga becomes ill, and sits with her head on Thorkel's lap with Gunnlaug's cloak spread in front of her, staring at it.