The Heimskringla on Snorri Sturlason

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway

• attribution: Snorri Sturlason authored Heimskringla

  "By Snorri Sturlason"

• attestation: Snorri Sturlason lived from approximately 1179 to 1241

  "(c.1179-1241)"

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > A.D. 1177.

• attestation: Scholars continue to debate the historical accuracy of Snorri Sturlason's work

  "scholars and historians continue to debate the historical accuracy of Sturlason's work"

Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > Preface Of Snorre Sturlason.

• attestation: Snorri recorded old stories told by intelligent people about chiefs who held dominion in northern countries and spoke the Danish tongue

  "In this book I have had old stories written down, as I have heard them told by intelligent people, concerning chiefs who have have held dominion in the northern countries, and who spoke the Danish tongue"

• attestation: Some of Snorri's information came from ancient family registers recording pedigrees of kings and high-born persons

  "Some of this is found in ancient family registers, in which the pedigrees of kings and other personages of high birth are reckoned up"

• attestation: Snorri considered skaldic poems sung before chiefs reliable because no one would dare recite falsehoods to a chief's face

  "no one would dare to relete to a chief what he, and all those who heard it, knew to be a false and imaginary, not a true account of his deeds; because that would be mockery, not praise."