Snorri Sturluson

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December 25, 1178 in Hvamm, Iceland

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December 25, 1240

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Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. He was twice elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He was the author of the Prose Edda or Younger Edda, which consists of Gylfaginning ("the fooling of Gylfi"), a narrative of Norse mythology, the Skáldskaparmál, a book of poetic language, and the Háttatal, a list of verse forms. He was also the author of the Heimskringla, a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history. For stylistic and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of Egils saga.

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Average rating: 4.06 · 2,011 ratings · 122 reviews · 41 distinct works

	The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, Jesse L. Byock 4.09 avg rating — 1,579 ratings — published 1220 — 95 editions	My rating:
	King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson, Magnus Magnusson (Introduction), Hermann Palsson (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 1230 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings by Snorri Sturluson, Snorre Sturlason 4.11 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1230 — 64 editions	My rating:
	Gylfaginning 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Egil's Saga by Anonymous, Bernard Scudder (Translator), Svanhildur Oskarsdottir 4.02 avg rating — 409 ratings — published 1240 — 30 editions	My rating:
	Heimskringla, Volume 1: The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1973 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Староисландски саги и митове 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	Eddukvæði by Snorri Sturluson (author), Gísli Sigurðsson (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	La saga d'Oláfr Tryggvason by Snorri Sturluson, Régis Boyer 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	La Saga De Saint Óláf: Tirée De La "Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson, Régis Boyer (Traduction) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“And now, if you have anything more to ask, I can't think how you can manage it, for I've never heard anyone tell more of the story of the world. Make what use of it you can.”
― Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda

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“Wiem, gdzie jesion stoi, Yggdrasill się zowie,
Lśniącą wilgotnością pień jego zroszony;
Z niego idzie rosa, co w dolinach spada,
Koło Urs studni wciąż zielony stoi.”
― Snorri Sturluson, The Poetic Edda

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“Obłęd i szał, rozczarowanie i żal,
Siądź tu, a opowiem tobie
o męce tęsknoty
I zdwojonym bólu.”
― Snorri Sturluson, The Poetic Edda

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