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Snor·ri Stur·lu·son

(snôr′ē stûr′lə-sən, snŏr′ē stœr′lə-sŏn) 1179-1241.
Icelandic historian and chieftain whose works include Heimskringla, a series of sagas, and the Prose, or Younger, Edda.
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Snorri Sturluson

(ˈsnɔːrɪ ˈstɜːləsən)
n
(Biography) 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
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Snor•ri Stur•lu•son

(ˈsnɔr i ˈstɜr lə sən)
n.
1179–1241, Icelandic historian and poet.
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Pero tambien puede verse el dialogo que establece con estas culturas, entre otros textos, en poemas como" Storni Sturluson" y "A Carlos XII" (El otro, el mismo, 1964), "A Islandia" (El oro de los tigres, 1972), "Brunanburh, 937 A.D." y "Elegia" (La rosa profunda, 1975), como asi tambien en cuentos como "Ulrica" y "El disco" (El libro de arena), en estudios como Literaturas germanicas medievales (en colaboracion con Maria Esther Vasquez en 1965 y en el que revisa y corrige su ensayo sobre Antiguas literaturas germanicas, de 1951, publicado junto a Delia Ingenieros) y, por supuesto, en la edicion de la Breve antologia anglosajona (1978) junto a Maria Kodama.
He begins with a discussion of contemporary medieval references to alliterative metre, with particular emphasis on Gerald of Wales's twelfth-century comments on English poetry and Snorri Sturluson's thirteenth-century Hattatal, a description of Old Norse metrical forms (chapter one).
Snorri Sturluson heavily quotes Bragi's poetry in his Prose Edda.
The Icelandic historian and poet Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241 AD) wrote this description: "His (Odin's) men rushed forwards without armour, were as mad as dogs or wolves, bit their shields, and were strong as bears or wild oxen, and killed people at a blow, but neither fire nor iron told upon themselves."
In his helpful introduction, Kevin Crossley Holland tells us of their provenance--written down in thirteenth century Iceland by Snorri Sturluson, poet, historian and politician, to save them from being forgotten.
Another candidate is Snorri Sturluson's thirteenth-century Hattatal ("list of verse forms"), written to describe cognate Old Norse poetry, which Cornelius rejects as little more than a catalog of types.
Conceived as a supplement to Eriksen's introduction, Gunnar Har[eth]arson's contribution surveys Old Norse intellectual culture, highlighting some of its noted thinkers such as Snorri Sturluson and his nephew Sturla [THORN]or[eth]arson.
(14) Tolkien knew of "earendel" from its appearance in the Christ 1 poem as well as in Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda and the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus.
[Examines Icelandic-American essayist and poet Bill Holm (1943-2009) and his "complementary identity," including the ways he found a "useful past" in both Icelandic and American literature, especially in the work of Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241) and Whitman.]
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Most scholars find Snorri Sturluson's (1197-1241) Heimskringla to be a compilation of sagas concerning Norwegian kings from their mythical origin to Magnus Erlingsson, and to have been fairly impartial, expect for an understandable bias toward Icelandic heroes.

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