Snorri Sturluson (Old Norse: [ˈsnorːe ˈsturloˌson]; Icelandic: [ˈsnɔrːɪ ˈstʏ(r)tlʏˌsɔːn]; 1179 – 22 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and...
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Prose Edda (redirect from Snorri's Edda)
least compiled, by the Icelandic scholar, lawspeaker, and historian Snorri Sturluson c. 1220. It is considered the fullest and most detailed source for...
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Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, and in the Gylfaginning section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda. But silence on the matter does not indicate that other...
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Stone circle (Iron Age) (section Snorri Sturluson)
it was still fresh in the 13th century as testify these lines by Snorri Sturluson in the introduction of the Heimskringla: As to funeral rites, the earliest...
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Heimskringla (category Works by Snorri Sturluson)
It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1178/79–1241) c. 1230. The title Heimskringla was first used in the...
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(written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson), in Heimskringla (also written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson), and in stanzas of an anonymous...
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Ophiotaurus Ouroboros Python (mythology) Sea monster Shesha Typhon Snorri Sturluson; Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist (trans.) (1916). The Prose Edda. New York:...
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traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In the Prose Edda and in a single poem in the Poetic Edda, the event...
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Karlsefni and Guðríðr Eiríksdóttir Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241), an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician Snorri Hjartarson (1906–1986), an Icelandic...
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commentaries by the 12th and 13th century Icelandic chieftain and scholar Snorri Sturluson. A skaldic reference to the norns appears in Hvini's poem in Ynglingatal...
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