Snorri the Priest
Known as “the Priest”. Status: curated
Snorri goði; also in Laxdæla and Eyrbyggja.
Narrative prominence
Kin
No parent/child links recorded.
Also appears in
Believed to be the same person as Snorri the Priest in Laxdæla saga, Snorri the Godi in Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar. 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
Friendship(1)
with Asgrim Ellida-Grim's son · weight 1 · ch. 113–113
“Snorri was a great friend of Asgrim Ellidagrim's son, and he looked for help there also.”
Conversation(4)
with Asgrim Ellida-Grim's son · weight 2 · ch. 118–138
“"To Snorri the Priest's booth," says Asgrim.”
“Then Asgrim spoke to Snorri, and said--”
with Eyjolf Bolverk's son · weight 1 · ch. 137–137
“Eyjolf jumped up and went away, and would not speak about it; and Snorri said, as Eyjolf arose--”
with Flosi Thord's son · weight 1 · ch. 144–144
“Snorri the priest had drawn up his men there in array, so thick that they could not pass that way, and Snorri the priest called out then to Flosi--”
with Asgrim Ellida-Grim's son · weight 1 · ch. 144–144
“Then Snorri the priest stood up and made a long and clever speech, and begged Asgrim and the others who took the lead in the quarrel to look towards an atonement.”
Support(1)
with Asgrim Ellida-Grim's son · weight 2 · ch. 144–144
“Asgrim and his friends gave Snorri the priest good gifts, and he had great honour from these suits.”
“Asgrim and his friends gave Snorri the priest good gifts, and he had great honour from these suits.”