Brynjólfur Sveinsson

Icelandic bishop

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In Codex Regius
…into the possession of Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson, the book was missing 8 pages and consisted of just 45 pages. (Some of the lost poems were preserved in prose form in the Völsunga saga.) Sveinsson incorrectly attributed the work to Sæmundr the Learned and erroneously named it Sæmundar Edda, a name…
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