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Iceland: Odin riding his eight-legged mount Sleipnir. Ink on paper, Jakob Sigurdsson (1727-1779),1764. Arni Magnusson Institute, Reykjavik

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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Title: Iceland: Odin riding his eight-legged mount Sleipnir. Ink on paper, Jakob Sigurdsson (1727-1779),1764. Arni Magnusson Institute, Reykjavik

Caption: 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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Print size: 32.2 × 39.9 cm | 1496.1 × 1854.7 in (300 dpi)

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