Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Sverrir Jakobsson (eds.), Sturla Þórðarson. Skald, Chieftain and Lawmen. The Northern World, 78. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017, 291 pp.

Throughout the twentieth century, scholars in Medieval Studies cast Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241) as medieval Iceland’s greatest personage in terms of learning and power. Only recently have some scholars started to throw doubt on Snorri’s ingenuity, and today’s picture of him may thus be considered more multi-faceted than ever. With Snorri no longer outshining his contemporaries, scholarship has turned attention toward other supposed key figures in medieval Iceland. Particular attention has been payed to Sturla Þórðarson (1214–1284), Snorri’s nephew. Celebrating Sturla’s 800th anniversary, in 2014, a conference was held at the University of Iceland, the gathered results of which were later published in