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Danish Royal Library, MS NKS 1867 4°

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Source revisionApr 21, 2024
Entity authorityQ5219782 ↗
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MS NKS 1867 4° is a 1760 paper manuscript now in the Danish Royal Library, Copenhagen (section Den nye kongelige samling). It contains skaldic poetry, assorted runological information, the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, plus Sólarljóð, and 16 illustrations based on the Eddas.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1867, 1760—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Danish, Royal and Library is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Danish Royal Library, MS NKS 1867 4°” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.