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The 27 pages that link to Snorri Sturluson, each with the reason it gives.

• Norse mythologyRelated: His account is a major source, though shaped by Christian-era authorship.

• Poetic EddaRelated: His separate handbook preserves and discusses eddic verse, though he did not compile this collection.

• Prose EddaRelated: His authorship and explanations shape the handbook’s combination of myth and poetics.

• Icelandic CommonwealthRelated: His political career and writings illuminate elite power during the Commonwealth’s final decades.

• RagnarökRelated: His retelling shaped how later audiences encountered the prophecy.

• HeimskringlaRelated: He is the traditional author, though the attribution cannot be established with certainty.

• Icelandic sagasRelated: His career exemplifies the learned political world in which saga writing flourished, though most sagas have unknown authors.

• OdinRelated: His Prose Edda is a key medieval source for Odin’s myths.

• LokiRelated: Snorri’s retellings strongly shape the familiar sequence of Loki’s mythic deeds.

• ÆsirRelated: His Christian-era synthesis strongly shaped how the Æsir are known.

• Old Norse literatureRelated: His works are among the most influential prose sources for Norse mythology and royal history.

• Skaldic poetryRelated: His handbook preserved explanations and examples of older skaldic verse.

• ThorRelated: His Prose Edda shaped how many of Thor’s myths were recorded and transmitted.

• VöluspáRelated: His Prose Edda quotes and interprets passages from Völuspá.

• GylfaginningRelated: He is traditionally identified as the author of Gylfaginning.

• BlótRelated: His accounts shaped much of what later generations know about blót.

• Icelandic literatureRelated: His works preserve and interpret Norse mythology and poetic practice.

• Old Norse religionRelated: His writings shaped much of the surviving literary account of Norse gods.

• Ynglinga sagaRelated: He is traditionally identified as the author of Heimskringla and its opening saga.

• FreyrRelated: His accounts are central sources for Freyr’s mythological profile and royal associations.

• Battle of StiklestadRelated: His later narrative shaped the familiar literary account of Stiklestad.

• ValhallaRelated: His Prose Edda is a major source for the familiar description of Valhalla.

• Age of the SturlungsRelated: His political maneuvering and shifting alliances exemplify the era’s unstable chieftain politics.

• JötunnRelated: His account is a major source for the surviving descriptions of jötnar.

• Olaf HaraldssonRelated: His saga account became a major narrative source for Olaf’s life.

• Battle of SvolderRelated: His Heimskringla helped transmit the saga tradition about Svolder.

• History of IcelandRelated: His life and death illuminate the power struggles of the Sturlung age.