Snorri Sturluson
Icelandic historian, poet and politician (AD 1179–1241) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Snorri Sturluson[1] (1179 – 23 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. He was three-time elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He was the author of the Prose Edda or Younger Edda and the Heimskringla, a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history.