The Poetic Edda and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda are the primary sources for Norse myth, and both were written in thirteenth-century Christian Iceland, well after conversion — Snorri was a politician and historian framing the myths partly as poetic instruction. Heathens generally treat them as sources rather than scripture: valuable, incomplete, and filtered. That stance produces continuous scholarly argument inside the community, which most participants regard as appropriate.