Great Lacuna
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title:
Great Lacuna
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The Great Lacuna is a lacuna of eight leaves where there was heroic Old Norse poetry in the Codex Regius. The gap would have contained the last part of Sigrdrífumál and most of Sigurðarkviða. What remains of the last poem consists of 22 stanzas called Brot af Sigurðarkviðu, but according to Henry Adams Bellows, the original size of Sigurðarkviða should have been more than 250 stanzas. The missing original narrative is preserved in the Völsunga saga in prose form with four stanzas of poetry. The
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Significant missing section in the Codex Regius
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2023-08-09T00:03:12Z
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