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Today I'm joined by Professor Vestin Olison,

former director of the Arnie Magismithyn Institute,

the foremost repository of Old Icelandic manuscripts.

He is also a retired professor of literature

and an author who has written numerous books

on literary history and criticism,

including the literary history of Iceland.

Professor Olison, thank you so much for

joining me today. Thank you. Gnato. Be with you. Well, it's a pleasure to have you on the podcast. I'm

really excited to get into our conversation today. We will be discussing the life and work of

Icelandic historian and poet Snorri Sterlison, a name which I know is familiar to many, if not most of

our listeners, but most people listening to this podcast know Snorri through his literary works,

namely the famous prose edda and Hames Kringle, the old Norse King sagas.

But apart from his literary work, who was Snorri Stirlison?

Well, first of all, he was born into a society which was very, very different from ours.

There was a society which had actually no executive power, but there were chief teams,

power brokers who had to negotiate among themselves or eventually fight out their differences.

And Snorri was born into a family of Chief Thames and his father was a rather important man,

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