Because he was not active enough in persuading his countrymen He had illegitimateĬhildren and lived with a widow, whose land he had incorporated with Several of them came from his own family. In court Snorri lost most of his cases and acquired manyĮnemies. In his homeland Snorri was called aĪfter returning to Iceland Snorri was involved in a number of Norway's supremacy over Iceland and perhaps he started to plan to writeĪ saga about the ancient kings. Snorri got deeply involved in political intrigues. Powerful man was Haakon's half-brother Jarl Skule. He was in Norway, invited by the young and inexperienced King Haakon Between 1215-18 andġ222-32 he was the chairman of the Icelandic high court. Snorri wrote most of his works between 1223-1235. Herdis lived at Borg until her death in 1233.

In theįollowing years Snorri devoted himself to enlarging his estate,Įventually gaining the position of one of the richest men in the Later Snorri married Herdis, who came from a wealthy family. It is possible that Snorri was able to read Latin. He grew up in the home of the most influentialĬhieftain of Iceland, Jón Loptsson, and acquired a deep knowledge of Snorri Sturluson, who belonged to the powerful Sturlungaįamily, was a descendant of the poet and hero from Egil's Saga,Įgill Skallgrímsson. Greatest poem is 'Lament for My Sons' in which Egil honors his dead Thought to have been written by Snorri Sturluson in about 1230. Like most sagas, Egil's Saga is anonymous but it is

Snorri expanded one of its sections into a separate Olaf's Saga. Kings of Norway, the most important prose collection in Old Norse Textbook for young poets who wished to praise kings, and Heimskringla, a history of the Writer of the saga, author of the Prose Edda, which was written as a Icelandic poet, historian, the best-known A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Edda by Snorri Sturluson