SNORRI STURLUSON

snôrˈrē stürˈlüsôn, –lĕsôn, 1178–1241, Icelandic chieftain, historian, critic, and saga teller, the leading figure in medieval Norse literature. He was the author of the invaluable Prose Edda (see Edda), a treatise on the art of poetry and a compendium of Norse mythology. His great saga the Heimskringla recounts the history of Norway to 1177; it combines traditional legend with substantial historical information and is of great literary merit. Snorri's sense of drama was outstanding, his mastery of form and method superb. Of an aristocratic family, Snorri acquired great wealth and became one of the most influential men in Iceland. Active in the politics of his day, he agreed to support the plan of Haakon IV for the annexation of Iceland to Norway, and thereafter he became increasingly entangled in intrigues and hostilities. In the struggle for control of Iceland he was killed by henchmen of his son-in-law, for political reasons as well as for reasons of inheritance.

See biography by M. Ciklamini (1978).

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books on: Snorri Sturluson  - 162 results

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A History of Icelandic Literature
Book by Daisy Neijmann; University of Nebraska Press, 2006
Subjects: Icelandic Literature--History And Criticism
...connected it with the Edda of Snorri Sturluson ( 1 1 78- I 24I ) , a work...were also among the sources for Snorri Sturlusons systematic presentation of...fourteenth-century manuscript of Snorri Sturlusons Prose Edda, although there is...
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Old Norse Images of Women
Book by Jenny Jochens; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996
Subjects: Goddesses, Mythology, Norse, Old Norse Literature--History And Criticism, Women In Literature, Women--Mythology, Women--Scandinavia--History
...now lost were reworked by Snorri Sturluson in his so-called Prose or Younger...contemporary Icelandic society of Snorri Sturluson personified in his mother...reinforces this view. Thus in Snorri Sturluson Heimskringla goading is...
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The Rise of the Medieval World, 500-1300: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Jana K. Schulman; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Biography--Middle Ages, 500-1500--Dictionaries, Civilization, Medieval--Dictionaries, Europe--History--476-1492--Biography--Dictionaries
...Parisiana poetria . c. 1222 The Icelander Snorri Sturluson writes the Prose Edda , a manual on poetic meters...1225, Eike von Repgow writes the Sachsenspiegel ; Snorri Sturluson writes Heimskringla . 1226 On the death...
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From Sagas to Society: Comparative Approaches to Early Iceland
Book by Gísli Pálsson; Hisarlik, 1992
Subjects: Iceland--Civilization--Congresses, Iceland--History--To 1262--Congresses, Iceland--Social Life And Customs--Congresses, Sagas--History And Criticism--Congresses
...include Society and Politics in Snorri Sturlusons Heimskringla (University of California...of a feast where one leader, Snorri go6i, invites his friends: There...for discussion. Most thought that Snorri was the greatest of them all...
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The Origins of Beowulf: From Vergil to Wiglaf
Book by Richard North; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, In Literature, East Anglia (England)--In Literature, Epic Poetry, English (Old)--History And Criticism, Kings And Rulers In Literature, Mercia (Kingdom)--In Literature, Mythology, Norse, In Literature, Wiglaf (Legendary Character)
...in Frisia, as a Swedish king in Snorri Sturlusons Ynglinga saga. A literary version...will suffice. Ragrtarsdrdpa is Snorris name for a work whose verses...Vikings who first invaded England. Snorri attributes the poem to Bragi Boddason...
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journal articles on: Snorri Sturluson  - 37 results

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Snorri and His Death: Youth, Violence, and Autobiography in Medieval Iceland
Journal article by Armann Jakobsson; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 75, 2003
...and may both have attended Snorri Sturlusons Christmas party in 1226. By...his advancing years becomes Snorri Sturlusons son-in-law. Porvaldr is a bully...rejects his offers of peace. Snorri Sturluson constantly sends emissaries...
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Myth as Therapy: The Usefulness of Brymskvida
Journal article by John Mckinnell; Medium Aevum, Vol. 69, 2000
Subjects: Brymskvida (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poetry, Medieval--Analysis, Poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets--History
...bridegrooms estate, like that of Snorri Sturluson at Hvammr,(46) seem to have...10) Gylfaginning, ch. 35, see Snorri Sturluson, Edda: Prologue and Gylfaginning...Oxford, 1982), p. 29, trans. in Snorri Sturluson, Edda, trans. Anthony Faulkes...
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Beowulf and Judith: Thematizing Decapitation in Old English Poetry
Journal article by Mary Flavia Godfrey; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 35, 1993
Subjects: Literature--History And Criticism, Philology
...and share its wisdom. 16 As Snorri Sturluson explains in the Ynglingasaga...the thirteenth century, when Snorri Sturluson writes, the heart is the source...the poetic creation. 21 In Snorri Sturluson prose Edda , his catalog of...
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The Amplified Saga: Structural Disunity in Morkinskinna
Journal article by Armann Jakobsson; Medium Aevum, Vol. 70, 2001
Subjects: Iceland--Literature, Literature, Medieval--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Norway--Literature, Sagas--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...has even been attributed to Snorri Sturluson himself.(19) The narrative begins...by the fact that the works of Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241) adhere more closely...to the poetical aesthetic of Snorri Sturluson, which is reflected in his historical...
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Wisdom from the Dead: The Ljodatal Section of Havamal
Journal article by John Mckinnell; Medium Aevum, Vol. 76, 2007
Subjects: Havamal (Poem)--Authorship, Havamal (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Old Norse poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Old Norse poetry--Works
...deliberate metrical device, which Snorri Sturluson calls galdralag (the metre of...Berlin, 1964), pp. 58-61. (7) Snorri Sturluson: Edda: Hattatal, ed. Anthony...Oxford, 1990, p. 39, stt. 101f.; Snorri Sturluson: Edda, trans. Anthony Faulkes...
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Let No Slight Pass - Icelandic Identity as Revealed in the Sagas
Magazine article by E. Paul Durrenberger; World and I, Vol. 15, March 2000
Subjects: Iceland--History, Norway--History, Norwegian history, Sagas--History, Scandinavian literature--History
...the Myrar men, the family of Snorri Sturluson and Egill Skallagrmsson. One...his thirteenth-century kinsman Snorri Sturluson, provides the classic example...Also, we should note that when Snorri Sturluson wrote his history of Norway...
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Literary Iceland
Magazine article by Helen K. Jerome; Book, November 2000
Subjects: Iceland--Literature, Literature--Personal narratives
...Saga--about a Viking poet warrior--were composed by chieftain wordsmith Snorri Sturluson. The lunchtime destination of the bus trip, Reykholt, boasts the very spot, Snorris Pool, where the great man allegedly used to compose his stories while bathing...
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Beowalf's Great Hall: John D. Niles Reports on the Search for the Real Location of the Heorot, the Hall Where Beowulf Feasted before Fighting the Monster Grendel
Magazine article by John D. Niles; History Today, Vol. 56, October 2006
Subjects: Beowulf (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Folk poetry--Criticism and interpretation
...Sven Aggesen and Saxo Grammaticus are in agreement on that point, as are the thirteenth-century Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson and the late Old Icelandic Saga of King Hrolf Kraki. Writing in 1013-18, the chronicler Thietmar of Merseburg speaks...
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Telling of the Tale
Magazine article by Jorge Luis Borges; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, September 2000
Subjects: Borges, Jorge Luis, Literary criticism
...in fact, men have always felt that the Trojans were the real heroes. We think of Virgil, but we may also think of Snorri Sturluson, who, in his younger era, wrote that Odin--the Odin of the Saxons, the god--was the son of Priam and the brother...
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At Large and at Small
Magazine article by Arthur Krystal; American Scholar, Vol. 68, Spring 1999
Subjects: Epistemology--Analysis, Knowledge, Theory of--Analysis, Literacy--Analysis
...not one but four "appendixes" of canonical authors and their works. A sampling of Blooms essential writers includes Snorri Sturluson, Tirso de Molina, Samuel Daniel, George Etherege, Maurice Sceve, John Gait, Adalbert Stifter, Trumbull Stickney...
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I STARTED.. HE FINISHED; as His Show Gets the Axe Girl Puts Mister Mastermind in the Chair
Newspaper article by Jan Disley; The Mirror (London, England), November 15, 1996
...theres Halldor Laxnes, who won the Nobel prize for literature in the 1950s. And the great Saga writer and historian Snorri Sturluson (sorry - havent come across that one, Magnus) and Leif the Lucky who discovered America. Wasnt that Columbus...


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Snorri Sturluson
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SNORRI STURLUSON snor re stur luson, leson, 1178 1241...information and is of great literary merit. Snorris sense of drama was outstanding, his mastery...method superb. Of an aristocratic family, Snorri acquired great wealth and became one of...
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Sturluson, Snorri
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
STURLUSON, SNORRI see Snorri Sturluson . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Reykholt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
REYKHOLT rak holt , farm, SW Iceland, famous since the Middle Ages as the home of the historian Snorri Sturluson , author of the Prose Edda (see Edda ). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...
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Edda
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Auden (1969), and U. Dronke (Vol. I, 1969). The Prose Edda, or Younger Edda, was probably written c.1222 by Snorri Sturluson as a guide to the scaldic poetry of Iceland. The first two parts constitute an account of Scandinavian mythology...
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Haakon IV
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...legal reforms were carried out. Haakons court was splendid, and Old Norse literature flowered during his reign. Snorri Sturluson lived for some time at the court. Haakon died at Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands when campaigning against Scotland...
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