Snorri
Sturluson
(is.)
b. 1179
d. 1241
Nationality: Icelandic
Snorri was an Icelandic statesman, scholar, and author who is credited
with writing Heimskringla, The
Prose Edda, and possibly Egil's
Saga.
Jakob
Sigurðsson
(is.)
Jakob
Sigurdsson
(en.)
b. 1727
d. 1779
Nationality: Icelandic
Jokob was a tenant farmer, poet, scribe, and illustrator, who created
full-page Eddaillustrations in hand-copied
paper manuscripts in Iceland in the eighteenth century.
Týr (non.)
Tyr (en.)
The god who put his hand in the mouth of the wolf Fenrir as pledge
that the gods were not really trying to bind Fenrir but were only
testing his strength. Fenrir bit off Týr's hand when they succeeded in
binding him.