Usuario:Klondike/Sotano

El Codex Regius es un manuscrito islandés (Veasé también Codex) en el que se preserva la Edda Poética y que se cree escrito en la década de 1270. Muchos de los poemas e historas que contiene Many of the poems and stories contained in it pre-date the conversion of Scandinavia to Christianity in the late tenth century. It was found by the bishop of Skálholt, Brynjólfur Sveinsson in 1643 and was presented to King Frederick III of Denmark.

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. ​

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

• Stafrænt handritasafn (Portal to photographs of the whole codex)