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SNORRI STURLASON (1179-1241) , the celebrated Icelandic historian, the youngest son of a chief
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spring . He early made himself known as a poet, especially by glorifying the exploits of the contemporary Norse kings and earls; at the same time he was a learned lawyer, and from 1215 became the logsogumabr, or president of the legislative assembly and supreme court of Iceland. The prominent features of his character seem to have been cunning, ambition and avarice, combined with want of courage and aversion from effort. By royal invitation he went in 1218 to Norway, where he remained a long time with the young king Haakon and his tutor Earl
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Snorri is the author of the great prose Edda (see EDDA), and of the Ileimskringla or Sagas of the Norwegian Kings, a connected series of biographies of the kings of Norway down to Sverri in 1177. The later work opens with the Ynglinga Saga, a brief history of the pre-tended immigration into Sweden of the Aesir, of their successors inthat country, the kings of Upsala, and of the oldest Norwegian kings, plicatus, with broad leaves folded like a fan and G. Elwesii, a their descendants. Next come the biographies of the succeeding ( native of the Levant, with large flowers
Norwegian kings, the most detailed being those of the two missionary I of which have a much larger and more conspicuous green blotch kings Olaf Tryggvason and St Olaf. Snorri's sources were partly succinct histories of the realm, as the chronological sketch of Art; ( than the commoner kinds. All the species thrive in almost partly more voluminous early collections of traditions, as the Noregs Konungatal (Fagrskinna) and the Jarlasaga; partly legendary biographies of the two Olafs; and, in addition to these, studies and collections which he himself made during his journeys in Norway. His critical principles are explained in the preface, where he dwells on the necessity of starting as much as possible from trustworthy contemporary sources, or at least from those nearest to antiquitythe touchstone by which verbal traditions can be tested being con-temporary poems. He inclines to rationalism, rejecting the marvellous and recasting legends containing it in a more historical spirit; but he makes an exception in the accounts of the introduction of Christianity into .Norway and of the national saint St Olaf. Snorri strives everywhere to impart life and vigour to his narrative, and he gives the dialogues in the individual character of each person. Especially in this last he shows a tendency to epigram and often uses humorous and pathetic expressions. Besides his principal work, he elaborated in a separate form its better and larger part, the History of St Olaf (the great Olaf's Saga). In the preface to this he gives a brief extract of the earlier history, and, as an appendix, a short account of St Olaf's miracles after his death; here, too, he employs critical art, as appears from a comparison with his source, the Latin legend. See further ICELAND, Literature, and EDDA.End of Article: SNORRI STURLASON (1179-1241) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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