Snorre Sturlason
1178 - 1241
Icelandic poet, historian and politician.
Authored the following books:
Prose Edda, consisting of "Gylfaginning, Skaldskaparmal, & Hattatall " - about mythological gods beginning as human war leaders and kings whose funeral sites develop cults
and
Heimskringla - history of Norwegian kings that begins with the legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history.
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