Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic Historian(1179-1241)

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• Name: Snorri Sturluson
• Birth: Unknown Date, 1179, Dalasýsla, Iceland
• Death: September 23, 1241, Reykholt, Iceland
• Language: Icelandic
• Who he was: Icelandic historian and poet, assumed author or editor of the Prose Edda (also called the Younger Edda), an Old Norse saga compiled around 1220-1241
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