Reykholt
Reykholt
(rāk`hôlt'), farm, SW Iceland, famous since the Middle Ages as the home of the historian Snorri SturlusonSnorri Sturluson or Sturleson, 1178–1241, Icelandic chieftain, historian, critic, and saga teller, the leading figure in medieval Norse literature.
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, title applied to two distinct works in Old Icelandic. The Poetic Edda, or Elder Edda, is a collection (late 13th cent.) of 34 mythological and heroic lays, most of which were composed c.800–c.1200, probably in Iceland or W Norway.
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