Snorri Sturluson
Icelandic historian, poet and politician (AD 1179–1241)
Snorri Sturluson[1] (1179 – 23 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. He was three-time elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He was the author of the Prose Edda or Younger Edda and the Heimskringla, a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history.
References
- Bagge, Sverre (1991). Society and politics in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06887-4.
- Snorri Sturluson, "Kringla leaf" (c. 1260), part of Heimskringla treasure 1 Archived 2009-10-14 at the Wayback Machine National Library of Iceland displayed via The European Library
- Monsen, Erling (1990), "Introduction to the Translation of Snorre's History of the Norse Kings", Heimskringla or the Lives of the Norse Kings: Edited with notes by Erling Monsen and translated into English with the assistance of A.H. Smith, Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., ISBN 0-486-26366-5. A reprint of the 1932 Cambridge edition by W. Heffer.
- Enoksen, Lars Magnar. (1998). Runor : historia, tydning, tolkning. Historiska Media, Falun. ISBN 91-88930-32-7
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Wikisource has original writing related to this article:
- Faulkes, Anthony (1993). "The sources of Skáldskaparmál: Snorri's intellectual background" (PDF). Snorri Sturluson. Kolloquium anläßlich der 750. Wiederkehr seines Todestages. Narr. pp. 59–76. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-07-12. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- Icelandic Medieval Manuscripts Archived 2004-10-23 at the National and University Library of Iceland, site maintained by Unnur Valgeirsdóttir at the University of Iceland.
- Snorri Sturluson Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine, article by Jónas Kristjánsson at snorrastofa.is.
- The Women in Snorri's Life Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine.
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