Snorri Sturluson
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Snorri Sturluson (1178–1241), Icelandic historian and poet. A leading figure of medieval Icelandic literature, he wrote the
Younger Edda or
Prose Edda and the
Heimskringla, a history of the kings of Norway from mythical times to the year 1177.
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Snorri Sturluson: Beitrage zu Werk und Rezeption.(Review)
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; * Hans Fix, ed. Snorri Sturluson: Beitrage zu Werk und Rezeption. Erganzungsbande zum Reallexikon...essentially the proceedings of a 1991 conference concerning Snorri Sturluson's compositions, contains sixteen essays on a wide variety...
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Snorri and his death: youth, violence, and autobiography in Medieval Iceland.
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...and may both have attended Snorri Sturluson's Christmas party in 1226...his advancing years becomes Snorri Sturluson's son-in-law. Porvaldr...rejects his offers of peace. Snorri Sturluson constantly sends emissaries...
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In Search of the Gods.(Russian roots of Norse religion)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Newsweek International; 8/20/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...history of Norway by Snorri Sturluson, a 13th-century Icelandic...a few calculations. Sturluson is widely accepted as...he says. "It's Snorri's. I'm just putting...exodus described by Sturluson. Other archeologists...
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A History of Old Norse Poetry and Prose
Magazine article from: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...based on the misinterpretation of Snorri Sturluson's statement that skalds could...s deeds (Ynglinga saga). Snorri, however, was more concerned...indebtness to classical models. Snorri Sturluson, for example, still relied heavily...
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Siguror and the Women.(Norse mythology)
Magazine article from: ReVision; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Grammaticus (c. 1150-1220) and Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179-1241). Both are...educate Siguror. According to Snorri Sturluson, the most renowned of the goddesses...This is indirectly confirmed by Snorri, who says in his Edda that Freyja...
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Supernatural others and ethnic others: a millenium of world view.
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...other" beings; according to Snorri Sturluson's accompanying prose in Ynglinga...swallowed up Sveigdhir. According to Snorri, Sveigdhir had gone to search...of Skuta.) In Ynglinga saga, Snorri Sturluson quotes the verse as evidence for...
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Errata.
Magazine article from: ANQ; 3/22/2003; 294 words
; ...ANQ 16.1. References to Snorri Sturluson were listed under "Sturluson," although Icelanders are...surname, and the work by Snorri, translated by Anthony Faulkes...Faulkes, Anthony, trans. Snorri Sturluson. Edda. London: Dent...
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Part I. "Fragments of Danish History" (Skjoldunga saga).(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Oddaverjar, including Jon Loptsson (the foster father of Snorri Sturluson) and Jon's grandfather Saemundr the Wise (Iceland...64). In his Ynglinga saga, written circa 1230, Snorri Sturluson briefly recounts how Helgi Halfdanarson (in Old...
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Morgunpula i straum.(Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...powerful chieftain and the father of Snorri Sturluson (c. 1178-1241), well known...Sturla Sighvatsson (1199-1238), Snorri's nephew, whose life is delineated...refuge in a church. He forces Snorri to leave Iceland and flee to Norway...
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What has Baldr to do with Lamech? The lethal shot of a blind man in Old Norse myth and Jewish exegetical traditions.(Beowulf)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Herebeald by his brother Haedcyn with Snorri Sturluson's celebrated thirteenth-century...Scandinavian traditions, but rather, Snorri's representation of them. As...It is rather to suggest that Snorri's account of the death of Baldr...
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Snorri Sturluson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Snorri Sturluson The Icelandic statesman Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241) was his country's most renowned historian...writing from the viewpoint of his own times. The life of Snorri Sturluson was as eventful as the lives of the Norse heroes about...
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Harold III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson (1966) from Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, contains most known information on Harold III. Other translations of Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla are also useful, such as Heimskringla...
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Olaf I Tryggvason, King of Norway
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...great medieval Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson, who wrote around 200 years after...revenues. Then, according to Snorri: In the market place he happened...every courtesy; indeed, says Snorri, Valdemar "received Olaf into...
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Harold I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...malcontents who opposed Harold's land taxes. As Snorri Sturluson pointed out, Hafrisfjord did not make it possible...detailed but not always accurate treatment of him is in Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla and Egils Saga. □
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Old Norse literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...initiated could understand their highly allusive verse, Snorri Sturluson was prompted to write the Prose Edda (c.1222...and 12th cent. is also noteworthy. In this field Snorri Sturluson contributed his Heimskringla. Ari Thorgilsson produced...
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