biography
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| (1179–1241)
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| Icelandic poet, statesman, and historian. In 1215 he was elected law-speaker of the island, but after becoming involved in a plan for Norway to rule Iceland, he incurred the ill-will of the Norwegian king, Haakon IV (reigned 1217–63), who had him murdered. His main works were the Prose Edda, a literary fund of ancient Icelandic saga and mythology, and Heimskringla (The Circle of the World), a series of sagas of the Norwegian kings down to 1177. |
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