Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson11791241MIcelandicHISTORY: historianWRITING: poet 1179–1241, Icelandic historian and poet; author of Younger or Prose Edda (?1222), containing a collection of Norse myths and a treatise on poetry, and the Heimskringla sagas of the Norwegian kings from their mythological origins to the 12th century