Category:Codex Regius of Poetic Edda

Codex Regius
	Icelandic codex preserving many Old Norse poems; had 53 vellum leaves (of which 8 are lost), written in the 1270s; in 1643 Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Bishop of Skálholt, found it, and in 1662 gave it to King Frederick III of Denmark, hence the name
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Instance of	codex,; Norse cultural artifact
Material used	vellum;
Genre	manuscript;
Author	Arnaldur Indriðason;
Collection	Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies;
Inception	circa 1270
Authority control
	Reasonator; Scholia; Statistics;