He was twice elected lawspeaker at the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. Snorri Sturluson (also spelled Snorre Sturlason) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. For stylistic and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of Egils saga. 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. 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.
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