For the first time, the “Saga of the Icelanders”, compiled by the great Icelandic historian and poet Sturla Thordarson (1214 - 1284), is published in Russian. The Icelanders' Saga is a key source on the history of Iceland and Norway in the 13th century. and the largest literary monument of the German Middle Ages. Sturla, for the first time in traditional Icelandic culture, turned to the events of modern history, which were witnessed by people of his generation, and created a large-scale panorama of society at a tragic moment in its development. The monument contains more than 90 skaldic poems (vis), composed by 13th-century Icelanders, including the narrator of the saga. The scientific apparatus of the publication consists of an introductory article, extensive comments and four annotated indexes.