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Iceland: Title page for Snorri's Edda showing Odin, Heimdallr, Sleipnir and other figures from Norse mythology. Jakob Sigurdsson (1727-1779), 1764. Icelandic National Library, Reykjavik

Iceland: Title page for Snorri's Edda showing Odin, Heimdallr, Sleipnir and other figures from Norse mythology. Jakob Sigurdsson (1727-1779), 1764. Icelandic National Library, 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.