A collection of anonymous Old Norse poems preserved mainly in the medieval Icelandic manuscript known as the Codex Regius, treating the mythology and heroic legends of the pre-Christian Norse world and a primary source for Norse religious belief. Belongs here: any passage drawn from this poetic collection. Does not belong here: passages from the Prose Edda, a separate prose work the atlas tracks as its own passage source.
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The Poetic Edda is the modern name for an untitled collection of Old Norse anonymous narrative poems in alliterative verse.
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