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'''Snorri Sturluson''' (1179--September 23, 1241) was a [[The High Middle Ages|medieval]] [[
Snorri is the single most famous author of medieval Iceland and Old Norse literature in general. His life marks the beginning of a [[Golden Age]] of Icelandic literature, during which the island produced [[
Snorri's most famous work is the ''Prose Edda'', also known as ''Snorra Edda'' after its author. The ''Prose Edda'' is easily the single most important source for [[Norse Mythology]]; not because it records a lot of myths itself -- which it does – but because it attempts to actually explain the myths and to describe them systematically. Without ''Snorra Edda'', much of the ''Poetic Edda'' and many other sources on the matter would remain incomprehensible.
His ''other'' [[Magnum Opus]] is traditionally ''[[
There is a hypothesis, grounded on an analysis of the vocabulary, that Snorri is also the author of ''Egil's Saga'', one of the big [[The Icelandic Sagas
Besides his fame as a poet and writer, Snorri also had a rather illustrious political career, which came naturally with his being born into the Sturlung clan, one of the most powerful Icelandic families of the era. He was raised at Oddi in Southern Iceland, at the time Iceland’s center of education, which laid the foundations for his later literary accomplishments.
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=== Snorri's works provide examples of the following tropes: ===
* [[Demythtification]]: Snorri tried to rationalize [[Norse Mythology]] to fit it in with Christian cosmology and Classical history; consequently, he explained the Æsir as an advanced (yet human) nation of [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|magic-wielders who were remembered as gods]] by posterity.
* [[Retcon]]: In the ''Snorra Edda'', Snorri claimed that Asgard, the city of the gods, was [[The Trojan War|Troy]], but by the time he wrote ''[[
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