Snorri Sturluson

"But the king's heart swells, bulging with courage in battle, where heroes sink down…" Over a period of twenty years Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose Edda as a textbook for young poets who wished to praise kings. His work surveys the content, style and metres of traditional Viking …

La Saga des rois de Norvège ou Heimskringla est un recueil de sagas écrites et compilées en Islande aux alentours de 1225 par le poète et historien Snorri Sturluson.