Snorri Sturluson was famous as the Icelandic poet, or Skald, behind some of our best loved Norse myths on the likes of Odin and Thor in the Prose Edda, and others. But he should also be famous for being one of the most interesting men that ever lived.

He lived in 13th century Iceland at a time when they were still fiercly independent. But was he to try change that? To this day some argue he was trying to sell Iceland out to Norway, others argue against it.

Here we look at his entire life, warts and all. We see how he was the polar opposite of the Vikings he depicted in his Sagas. Whilst those Norse heroes were battle hungry and up for a fight, Snorri was anything but. And yet, battle seemed to find him.

From Lawspeaker at the Icelandic Althing, deals with Norweigan kings, potentially saving his country, potentially selling out his country (twice over), to his nemesis that was also his nephew, through to his eventual death, Snorri Sturluson was a man worthy of study in his own right, not just for what he wrote.

This may have happened after the Viking era, and after Iceland had converted from Norse paganism to Christianity, but that doesn't stop it being any more stereotypical viking if it tried (well, aside from Snorri himself that is).

How Netflix hasn't picked up a series based off of the Saga of the Sturlusons, I'll never know.

The first part of this video was originally a part 1 all by itself, but I decided it worked better as one big video. The timestamp for those that had already seen part 1 is - [ Ссылка ]

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