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kafli5_15b_SnorriSt.jpgSnorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson (1178?-1241) was an author and chieftain. He is the most famous Icelandic author of all time.
    Most scholars are of the view that Snorri wrote Heimskringla, the Snorra-Edda and most probably also The Separate Saga of Saint Óláfr. In addition, many believe that Egils saga can also be attributed to him.
    Heimskringla is a collection of king’s sagas and is one of the most important works of Old Norse literature. It preserves the history of all the Norwegian kings from their mythical origins through to 1177.
    The Snorra-Edda is a handbook on the craft of poetic composition, compiled in about 1220. One part of the book is the Gylfaginning, which is written as an introduction to Norse mythology for young poets and is the greatest source of Old Norse mythic origins.
    Egils saga is an Icelandic family saga. It is preserved in many manuscripts dating from the thirteenth-century. The saga tells of Skalla-Grímr who, during the reign of Norwegian King Haraldr the Fairhaired in the ninth-century, was forced with his father Kveld-Úlfr from Norway to Iceland. Skalla-Grímr settled the area around Borgarfjörður and called his farm Borg. That is where his son, Egill, grew up. He quickly became a great poet and fighter and had quarrels with, amongst others, Eiríkr Blood-Axe, the Norwegian king who later travelled to Jórvíkur (York in England). Egill took the farm after his father and died in his old age at Mosfell.
    One poem by Snorri, Háttatal, has been preserved, although there may well have been other poems written by him which are now lost.
    Snorri lived at Reykholt in Borgarfjörður from around 1206 and was murdered there on the 23rd September 1241.