The hot pool is around 3.70-3.90 m in diameter and 0.7-1 m deep and there is a circular rim, and a bench, alongside the walls, where Snorri would sit, alone or with his friends and family.Ī small lodge covers a part of the passage leading to the pool. I love this image, Snorri chatting with his friends in the pool probably wearing a linen caftan :)
In Sturlunga Saga - one of our Sagas - pictures Snorri sitting in his hot pool and having a conversation with his friends. In Snorri Sturluson's time, an underground passage led from the farmhouse to the pool. The underground passage leads to the hot pool The pool was first mentioned in Landnáma - the Book of Settlements - written around 1200, where it says that the hot pool was in use already in the 10th century, but at that time nobody was living at Reykholt. Þjóðminjasafnið - the National Museum of Iceland reconstructed Snorralaug in 1959. This bath of Snorri is among the best-known heritage sites in Iceland. Snorralaug - Snorri's bath in Reykholt is the warm outdoor bathing pool of Snorri Sturluson and one of the first archaeological remains to be listed in Iceland in 1817. And he wrote all his work on calfskin - just imagine how much calfskin was needed for all of his work! He wrote in Icelandic and not in Latin, which was the more common thing to do. Snorri has been called the Homer of the North. Snorri was influential in preserving the Norse cultural heritage through his great work. Snorri was Iceland's greatest Saga writer and the author of Heimskringla, the history of the Norwegian kings, Prose-Edda, with a lot of information about Nordic mythology and poetry, and he is also believed to be the writer of Egils Saga, the saga of Egill Skallagrímsson. Snorri Sturluson as depicted at the Saga Museum in Reykjavík Top photo: the 2 Reykholtskirkjur churches at Reykholt Reykholt was an ecclesiastical and cultural centre back in medieval times and an educational centre. He held the power of 11 chieftainships and had a revenue of 100 farms in Iceland. He was a chieftain and one of the richest men in Iceland during the Sturlungaöld - the Sturlung Age and the most powerful man in Iceland. He was a Saga writer, politician, historiographer, and poet. Snorri was quite possibly the most influential Icelander ever.
Reykholt is one of the most historical sites in Iceland.
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