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Iceland / Denmark: The deluding of King Gylfi. Ink on paper, Jakob Sigurdsson (1727-1779), 1760. Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen

Iceland / Denmark: The deluding of King Gylfi. Ink on paper, Jakob Sigurdsson (1727-1779), 1760. Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen

The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius.

Together with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends.

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