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Gylfaginning snorri sturluson biography
Snorri Sturluson
Icelandic historian, poet and politician (AD 1179–1241)
This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Snorri.
Snorri Sturluson[a] (Old Norse:[ˈsnorːeˈsturloˌson]; Icelandic:[ˈsnɔrːɪˈstʏ(r)tlʏˌsɔːn]; 1179 – 22 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.[2] He was elected twice as lawspeaker of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing.
He is commonly thought to have authored or compiled portions of the Prose Edda, which is a major source for what is today known about Norse mythology and alliterative verse, and Heimskringla, a history of the Norse kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history.[3] For stylistic and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of Egil's Saga.
He was assassinated in 1241 by men claiming to be agen