The Prose Edda - Brossura

Sturlson, Snorri

Brossura

ISBN 10: 197396984X ISBN 13: 9781973969846

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Riassunto

The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda or, historically, simply as Edda, is an Old Norse work of literature written in Iceland in the early 13th century. The work is often assumed to have been written, or at least compiled, by the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around the year 1220.

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About the Author:

Snorri Sturluson[1] (1179 – 23 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was elected twice as lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He was the author of the Prose Edda or Younger Edda, which consists of Gylfaginning ("the fooling of Gylfi"), a narrative of Norse mythology, the Skáldskaparmál, a book of poetic language, and the Háttatal, a list of verse forms. He was also the author of the Heimskringla, a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history. For stylistic and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of Egil's saga.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 197396984X
• ISBN 13: 9781973969846
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 140