He served several terms as "lawspeaker" of the high court, in between which he wrote a biography of St. Olaf that became the central component of his Heimskringla, or Orb of the World, which described the sagas of Norwegian kings.
From the age of three he was raised in the home of Jon Loptsson, gaining the deep knowledge of local traditions that he would display in his literary efforts. He served several terms as "lawspeaker" of the high court, in between which he wrote a biography of St. Olaf that became the central component of his Heimskringla, or Orb of the World, which described the sagas of Norwegian kings. Before his assassination by Haakon IV, he completed a work whose sections included "The Beguiling of Gylfi", "The Language of Poetry", and "A Catalog of Meters". FTP, who was this Icelandic chieftain, author of the Prose Edda?
From the age of three he was raised in the home of Jon Loptsson, gaining the deep knowledge of local traditions that he would display in his literary efforts.
Snorri Sturluson