Prose Edda

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Iceland itself, in part through Norway, in part directly, drew from the life of the Continent: Saemundr the Learned, who had studied in Paris, founded a School at Oddi; Sturla Sigvatsson, Snorri's nephew, made a pilgrimage to Rome, and visited Germany; and Snorri himself shows, in the opening pages of his Heimserz'ngla, or History of the Kings of Norway, the influence of that great romantic cycle, the Matter of Troy.