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The Codex Regius is also known erroneously as the Eldar Edda or Sæmundar Edda. The word Edda was originally used by Snorri Sturluson . Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson had known about the works contained within the Codex Regius and had considered them lost. In a letter to a friend he states that the collection is part of that, "great body of human wisdom which Sæmund the Wise collected". It is worthy of note that Snorri Sturluson's work (known as Snorri Edda, Prose Edda or the Younger Edda) is likely to have been written decades before the Codex Regius had been compiled. Larrington, C: "The Poetic Edda", pages xi - xii. Oxford University Press, 1996 Codex Regius was stored on the mainland, at the Royal Library in Copenhagen until April 21. 1971, when it was brought back to Reykjavík and is now kept in the Árni Magnússon Institute . Since air travel was not to be entirely trusted at the time with such precious cargo, it was transported by ship, accompanied by a military escort. CONTENTS : Völuspá : Hávamál : Vafþrúðnismál : Grímnismál : Skírnismál : Hárbarðsljóð : Hymiskviða : Lokasenna : Þrymskviða : Völundarkviða : Alvíssmál : Helgakviða Hundingsbana I : Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar : Helgakviða Hundingsbana II : Frá Dauða Sinfjötla : Grípisspá : Reginsmál : Fáfnismál : Sigrdrífumál : The Great Lacuna : Brot Af Sigurðarkviðu : Guðrúnarkviða I : Sigurðarkviða Hin Skamma : Helreið Brynhildar : Dráp Niflunga : Guðrúnarkviða II : Guðrúnarkviða III : Oddrúnargrátr : Atlakviða : Atlamál : Guðrúnarhvöt : Hamðismál EXTERNAL LINKS
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