Poetic edda vs prose edda

Icelandic historian, poet and politician (AD 1179–1241)

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Snorri.

Snorri Sturluson^[a] (Old Norse:[ˈsnorːeˈsturloˌson]; Icelandic:[ˈsnɔrːɪˈstʏ(r)tlʏˌsɔːn]; 1179 – 22 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.^[2] He was elected twice as lawspeaker of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing.

He is commonly thought to have authored or compiled portions of the Prose Edda, which is a major source for what is today known about Norse mythology and alliterative verse, and Heimskringla, a history of the Norse kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history.^[3] For stylistic and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of Egil's Saga.

He was assassinated in 1241 by men claiming to be agen