[1] Much academic debate is dedicated to evaluating his life, bias as an historian of medieval Iceland and Norway.
His brother was Icelandic skald and scholar Ólafur Þórðarson hvítaskáld.
[3] He fought alongside Þórður kakali Sighvatsson during the Age of the Sturlungs.
Like his uncle, Snorri, and his brother, Óláfr, Sturla was a prolific poet.
He is moreover listed in Skáldatal as the court skald of the Swedish ruler Birger Jarl.