4.The Memories of Snorri Sturluson

Yoav Tirosh (CVM) introduces the Icelandic polymath, Snorri Sturluson. Assassinated in his cellar in the year 1241 (his last words were supposedly “Don’t hit me!”), Snorri was a politician, a poet, a historian, a womaniser – and the man who wrote down most of the Old Norse mythology which survives today. But the pagan tales he recorded had ceased to be held as cosmological truths for two centuries by the time he was born.

Yoav explains the varying memories of Snorri Sturluson, both in the sense of the things he “recalled” from a time long before he was even born, and how Snorri is remembered today. Yoav also makes webcomics which you can find on most social media websites under the username @RealMundiRiki.

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Music by Kirsi Tilk

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