Codex Regius (Poetic Edda)

No. Editors often add Eddic poems preserved elsewhere, such as Baldrs draumar from another manuscript tradition. Codex Regius remains the core source, but the modern Poetic Edda is an editorial collection rather than a perfect transcription of one book.

Several leaves are missing from the heroic section, creating a gap in the story between surviving poems about Sigurd and the later legends. The Völsunga saga preserves related narrative material and helps scholars reconstruct what may have occupied the lost pages.

The Poetic Edda Codex Regius preserves anonymous Old Norse mythological and heroic verse. Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda is a separate 13th-century work explaining mythology and poetic technique, and it survives in several manuscripts of its own.

Denmark returned the manuscript to Iceland in 1971, when it was transported by ship to Reykjavík. Its return became a prominent symbol of Iceland's recovery of medieval cultural manuscripts.