Snorri the Godi
Known as “the Godi”. Status: curated
Promoted from auto-bootstrap after manual verification (ch. 67-69, consulted as a chieftain alongside Gudmund the Mighty; his death near the saga's chronological endpoint, ch. ~72, is consistent with a single long-lived recurring figure) -- matches Njals saga's and Laxdaela saga's Snorri the Priest/Godi. See data/entities/cross_saga.yaml.
Narrative prominence
Kin
No parent/child links recorded.
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Believed to be the same person as Snorri the Priest in Njáls saga (Brennu-Njáls saga), Snorri the Priest in Laxdæla saga. medium confidence
All three texts use a distinctive, rare epithet combination ("Snorri the Priest" / "Snorri the Godi" -- both English renderings of Old Norse "goði", a chieftain-priest title) for a recurring political figure, not a generic title shared by many characters. Laxdæla ch. 5 independently establishes his genealogy ("Thorgrim, father of Snori the Priest"). Grettis saga narrates his death near its own chronological endpoint ("In the spring died Snorri the Godi"), consistent with a single long-lived figure appearing across sagas covering overlapping decades.
Caveat: Downgraded from "high" to "medium" because, unlike the Hoskuld/Hrut link, no single passage in this corpus narrates matching parentage details across two of the three texts simultaneously -- the identification rests on the specific epithet plus consistent chronological placement, which is standard saga-scholarship practice but not independently re-derived here from genealogy alone.
This links the person, not the character’s network position: each saga keeps its own separate mentions, edges, and centrality scores for this entity. See Methods.
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Relations and evidence
Kinship(1)
with Thorodd · weight 1 · ch. 68–68
“It is not clearly stated what they had done to displease him except that they had refused to undertake some important work which he had given them to do; what is known is that Snorri turned off his son Thorodd and told him not to come back until he had slain some forest-man, and so it remained.”
Friendship(1)
with Grettir Asmund's son/daughter · weight 1 · ch. 68–68
“Snorri showed his approval of Grettir's action towards Thorodd, for his counsels were always friendly to Grettir.”
Conversation(4)
with Grettir Asmund's son/daughter · weight 1 · ch. 49–49
“Snorri answered: "I am now an old man, and have no mind to harbour outlaws, unless in a case of necessity.”
with Thorodd · weight 1 · ch. 51–51
“Snorri said that inquiry must first be made whether Thorir of Gard would agree to Grettir being freed.”
with Thorir · weight 1 · ch. 51–51
“When Thorir heard of it he was furious, and said that never should Grettir either go or come out of his outlawry.”
with Thorodd · weight 1 · ch. 68–68
“Thorodd Snorrason heard of this, rode to Breidabolstad and asked where the shepherd was.”