The Ynglinga saga section of Snorri's Heimskringla and the Eddic poem Ragnarsdrápa tell a legend of how Gylfi was seduced by the goddess Gefjon to give her as much land as she could plow in one night.

Ynglinga saga is the first part of Snorri's history of the ancient Norse kings, the Heimskringla.

In Snorri's Ynglinga Saga in the Heimskringla, Skjöld's wife is the goddess Gefjön and the same account occurs in most, but not all, manuscripts of the Edda.

In Snorri's Magnus Barefoot's Saga, a part of the Heimskringla, there is a description of the appearance of Inge:

These historians pointed out that Snorri's work had been written several centuries after most of the events it describes.

Snorri's assertion that ' neither fire nor iron told upon them ' is reiterated time after time, and the sources frequently state that neither edged weapons nor fire affected the berserks, although they were not immune to clubs or other blunt instruments.

Haakon Jarl's life also received literary treatment by Danish poet Adam Oehlenschläger, in his tragedy Hakon Jarl, written in six weeks in 1805 during a stay in Halle, after reading Snorri's Heimskringla.

Bjorn fended off Snorri's attack, but was later convinced to leave Iceland.

Like Snorri's Hel, she is terrifying to in appearance, black or dark in colour, usually naked, adorned with severed heads or arms or the corpses of children, her lips smeared with blood.

Saxo holds she was the daughter of Æthelred, King of England ( usually identified with Æthelred of Wessex ), while Jómsvíkinga saga and Snorri's Heimskringla say her father was a king or jarl of Jutland or Holstein called Harald Klak.

Davidson concludes that, in these examples, " here we have the fierce destructive side of death, with a strong emphasis on its physical horrors, so perhaps we should not assume that the gruesome figure of Hel is wholly Snorri's literary invention.

John Lindow states that most details about Hel, as a figure, are not found outside of Snorri's writing in Gylfaginning, and says that when older skaldic poetry " says that people are ' in ' rather than ' with ' Hel, we are clearly dealing with a place rather than a person, and this is assumed to be the older conception ," that the noun and place Hel likely originally simply meant " grave ," and that " the personification came later.

Snorri's descriptions of Hel in the Prose Edda are not corroborated outside of Baldrs draumar, which does not appear in the original Codex Regius but is a later addition often included with modern editions of the Poetic Edda.

R. D. Fulk notes that Snorri's Prose Edda account " conflicts with the poetic version, as the Edda presents a Noah-like figure, while the latter has Bergelmir laid ( lagiðr ) in the lúðr, implying he is an infant, as in the Scyld story.

John Lindow says that scholars have generally followed Snorri's etymological connection with the root lof -, meaning " praise.

She came upon a dead man ; Thorbrand, Snorri's son, with a flat stone fixed in his head ; his sword lay beside him, so she took it up and prepared to defend herself therewith.

Snorri's works covers the history of the Norwegian kings from the mythical prehistoric age until the year 1177, with the death of the pretender Eystein Meyla.

In the same year, he brought out the first complete editions of Snorri's Edda and Sæmundr's Edda ( more commonly known as the Poetic or Elder Edda ), in the original text, along with Swedish translations of both Eddas.

They are immediately set upon by a gang of giants from the cave of Geirrod, but Thor and Thjalfi ( Þjálfi ) quickly put them to flight ( although in Snorri's version of the tale Þjálfi is replaced with Loki ).

Arnkel finally engages in a physical dispute with Snorri and the Thorbrandssons ( Þorbrandsson ), Snorri's foster brothers.

Hermód appears in Snorri's Gylfaginning as the messenger sent by Odin to Hel to seek to bargain for Balder's release.

All appear in Snorri's pseudo-historical Prologue to the Prose Edda as sons of Odin and founders of these various lineages, perhaps all thought to be sons of Odin begotten on mortal women.

# Denmark and Sweden ( according to Snorri's Edda it was the earthly kingdom of Odin ).

Andy Orchard comments " Snorri's etymologizing interpretation is scarcely profound, and may imply that he had no access to further material " and notes that references to Vör are otherwise rare.

Óláfr was the paternal nephew of Snorri Sturluson and spent his youth in Snorri's home where he had an important part of his scholarly education.

The Prose Edda, sometimes referred to as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda is an Icelandic manual of poetics which also contains many mythological stories.

Snorri's Heimskringla also preserves many poems.

In 2010 Rudolf Simek, building on an analysis by Lotte Motz, argued that vanir was originally nothing more than a general term for deities like æsir, and that its employment as a distinct group of deities was Snorri's invention, and the Vanir are therefore " a figment of imagination from the 13th to 20th centuries ".

The third mention made of Hliðskjálf is during Snorri's recounting of the wooing of Gerd, quoted by him from Skírnismál.

In Snorri's account Gylfi is deluded by the Æsir into accepting their supposed religious beliefs, hence the name Gylfaginning ' Deluding of Gylfi '.

:" The confusion between Niflheim and Nifhel is summed up by variation in the manuscript of Snorri's Edda.

This Þorgnýr is held to have historic basis, but Snorri's account is doubted by modern Swedish historians, who lack native Swedish documentation on the Tiundaland lawspeakers of this time.

Tyr, Höd, and Bragi are conspicuously absent from this list, one reason to believe it is not from Snorri's hand.

The verses are not in all manuscripts of the Edda and appear independently, and are probably a later addition to Snorri's original composition ; they may have been one of its sources.

Due to his absence in other relevant mythological texts, numerous scholars have argued that Baugi either comes from a source that is not extant today or was an invention of Snorri's, accidental or intentional.

According to Snorri's prologue Beldeg was identical to Baldur and ruled in Westphalia.

All skeletons that are likely to be that of Inge are very tall, about two meters in length, suggesting that Snorri's description was accurate.

King Heimer and AslaugAslaug, Aslög, Kraka, Kráka or Randalin, was a queen of Scandinavian mythology who appears in Snorri's Edda, the Völsunga saga and the saga of Ragnar Lodbrok.

One of the descendants of Snorri's brother Thorbjorn, Bjorn Gilsson, was also a bishop of Hólar.

The museum was once thought to have been built on the site of Snorri's farmhouse.

According to Snorri's saga, King Harald controlled large parts of Norway's southeast portion before the battle ; but other sources claim that the eastern portion of Norway was under the Danish king.