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Guðrun Ósvífursdóttir, buried at the base of Helgafell (``Holy Mountain") in 1045, was traded the land in exchange for her estate by Snorri Goði, who converted to Christianity and built the nearby church. Deanna Swaney wrote of the tragedy of Guðrun (told in the Laxdæla Saga) that ``when her son Bolli came to ask which man she had loved the best during her lifetime, she understood him to ask which of her four husbands she'd loved the best. When he explained himself, however, she replied, `I treated the worst the one I loved the most,' thereby providing an enigmatic ending for her tragic tale."