Snorri Sturluson

[ snor-ree stœr-luh-son; English snawr-ee stur-luh-suhn ]

noun

1. 1179–1241, Icelandic historian and poet.

Snorri Sturluson

/ ˈsnɔːrɪ ˈstɜːləsən /

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

Cnut called out, according to Snorri Sturluson, the great Icelandic poet and chronicler of the era.

From Washington Post

The Younger Edda, in prose, was written down by one Snorri Sturluson in the last part of the twelfth century.

From Literature

Most of what we know about the stories Vikings told each other comes from Snorri Sturluson, who was an Icelandic poet and lawyer, a combination not quite so rare then as now.

From Washington Post

One said “Snorri Cabins,” and I wondered if the name referred to Snorri Sturluson, the 13th-century Icelander who wrote the “Heimskringla,” an important history of the ancient Norwegian kings, or if it had to do with another Snorri, who, according to another of the sagas, was born in Vinland in the first autumn after the Vikings arrived.

From New York Times

An epitome of the story based upon the poemsvii is contained in the "Snorra Edda," a work written by the Icelander Snorri Sturluson, who lived from 1178 to 1241, to serve as a handbook for poets and which contains in this way the myths and legends of the North.

From Project Gutenberg