Icelandic historian, poet and politician (AD 1179–1241)
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This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Snorri.
Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson by Christian Krohg (1890s)
Born
1179 (1179)
Hvammur í Dölum, Dalasýsla, Icelandic Commonwealth
An illustrated title page of a manuscript from 1764 containing the Prose Edda (ÍB 299 4to).
Snorri Sturluson[a] (Old Norse:[ˈsnorːeˈsturloˌson]; Icelandic:[ˈsnɔrːɪˈstʏ(r)tlʏˌsɔːn]; 1179 – 22 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.[2] He was elected twice as lawspeaker of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He is commonly thought to have authored or compiled portions of the Prose Edda, which is a major source for what is today known about Norse mythology and alliterative verse, and Heimskringla, a history of the Norse kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history.[3] For stylistic and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of Egil's Saga. He was assassinated in 1241 by men claiming to be agents of the King of Norway.[4]
^ abcThe Women in Snorri's Life. harpahreins.com.
^Bagge, Sverre (2019). En kort introduksjon til Snorre Sturlason: historiker og dikter (in Norwegian). Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 978-82-02-64476-5.
^John Lindow (17 October 2002). Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford University Press. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-0-19-983969-8.
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least compiled, by the Icelandic scholar, lawspeaker, and historian SnorriSturluson c. 1220. It is considered the fullest and most detailed source for...
Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, and in the Gylfaginning section of SnorriSturluson's Prose Edda. But silence on the matter does not indicate that other...
(written in the 13th century by SnorriSturluson), in Heimskringla (also written in the 13th century by SnorriSturluson), and in stanzas of an anonymous...
scholars assume it is written by the Icelandic poet and historian SnorriSturluson (1178/79–1241) c. 1230. The title Heimskringla was first used in the...
commentaries by the 12th and 13th century Icelandic chieftain and scholar SnorriSturluson. A skaldic reference to the norns appears in Hvini's poem in Ynglingatal...
credited with founding the city of Bergen circa 1070. Around 1225, SnorriSturluson wrote Olav Kyrres saga about King Olaf in the Heimskringla. Olaf was...
concerned with maintaining the farm. The Icelandic sagas, in particular SnorriSturluson in Heimskringla, claim that Sigurd, like Olaf's father, was a great-grandson...
the history of ancient Nordic Kings. He spoke of a notation made by SnorriSturluson, a 13th-century historian-mythographer in Ynglinga Saga, which relates...
composed around 1220, the Christian Icelandic bard and historian SnorriSturluson proposes that the Norse gods were originally historical leaders and...
represented with a phallic statue in the Temple at Uppsala. According to SnorriSturluson, Freyr was "the most renowned of the æsir", and was venerated for good...
traditional sources, and in the Prose Edda compiled in the 13th century by SnorriSturluson. In both sources, Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is central...
the 13th century by the Icelandic scholar, lawspeaker, and historian SnorriSturluson, and the Poetic Edda, a collection of poems from earlier traditional...
Karlsefni and Guðríðr Eiríksdóttir SnorriSturluson (1179–1241), an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician Snorri Hjartarson (1906–1986), an Icelandic...
differentiate between warships and supply ships. In King Harald's Saga, SnorriSturluson states, "it is said that King Harald had over two hundred ships, apart...
and in the Prose Edda, composed in the 13th century by Icelander SnorriSturluson. Scholars have proposed a variety of theories about the figure. Borr...
the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written in the 13th century by SnorriSturluson; and in the poetry of skalds. The Vanir are only attested in these...
and for Norse mythology. The Edda has been criticized for imposing SnorriSturluson’s own Christian views on Norse mythology. In particular the clean-cut...
1984) SnorriSturluson (1879) ed. Rasmus B. Anderson. The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology Digital reissue Digireads.com (2009) ISBN 1-4209-3460-0 Snorri Sturluson...
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