It is believed that he based much of his prose version on the earlier Poetic Edda, a poetic version of the Old Norse myths from about 40 years previously, which scholars earlier had attributed to the Icelander Sæmundr hinn fróði (the wise) but later was realized not to be true and currently is considered anonymous. ![]() After a trip to Norway from 1218 to 1220, the Icelandic law speaker and poet, Snorri Sturluson, returned to Iceland and wrote the Prose Edda, which was a prose version of the Old Norse myths. Much of our information on Norse mythology comes from the Icelanders. There was also a change in religion, from the traditional polytheist religion which included gods like Odin, Frey, Thor, Frigg, Freya and Sif to Christianity. The Nordic area went from a clan-based society to a kingship-base one and were developing into the countries we know today: Norway, Denmark Finland, Iceland, and Sweden. ![]() The Icelandic sagas, mostly written in the 13 th century, give us some of the historical and cultural information about the period between 800 to 1100 for the Nordic area. During the middle ages, the Icelanders wrote extensively in Icelandic rather than Latin which was the norm for that period.
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