Norse Mythology: Snorri and Saxo’s Salty Prose

When it comes to ‘primary’ source material about Norse mythology, few are better than the Prose Edda—but everyone hates on its 13th-century Icelandic author, the infamous Snorri Sturluson. There’s plenty of good reasons for that, but I think people take for granted that he was much less salty than his Danish contemporary, Saxo Grammaticus. This raid is about their salty source material, how it helps us understand Norse mythology, and how later authors remembered/rewrote old lore for their own times.