Sturluson

Cnut called out, according to Snorri Sturluson, the great Icelandic poet and chronicler of the era.

The Younger Edda, in prose, was written down by one Snorri Sturluson in the last part of the twelfth century.

Most of what we know about the stories Vikings told each other comes from Snorri Sturluson, who was an Icelandic poet and lawyer, a combination not quite so rare then as now.

Jesse Byock's 2005 translation of Sturluson's “Prose Edda” dispatches that part of the story in two swift sentences.

One said “Snorri Cabins,” and I wondered if the name referred to Snorri Sturluson, the 13th-century Icelander who wrote the “Heimskringla,” an important history of the ancient Norwegian kings, or if it had to do with another Snorri, who, according to another of the sagas, was born in Vinland in the first autumn after the Vikings arrived.