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{{short description|Icelandic manuscript source for Poetic Edda}}
'''AM 748 I 4to''' is an Icelandic [[vellum|vellum manuscript]] fragment containing several [[Poetic Edda|Eddaic poems]]. It dates to the beginning of the 14th century. AM 748 I is split into two parts. AM 748 I a 4to is kept in the [[Arnamagnæan Institute]] in Copenhagen. AM 748 I b 4to is kept at the [[Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies]] in [[Reykjavík]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://handrit.is/da/manuscript/view/is/AM04-0748I-b|title=Snorra-Edda, Þriðja málfræðiritgerðin og Íslend... {{!}} Håndskrift {{!}} Handrit.is|last=|first=|date=|website=handrit.is|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200104194555/https://handrit.is/da/manuscript/view/is/AM04-0748I-b|archive-date=4 January 2020|access-date=2020-01-04}}</ref> The six sheets which have been preserved of AM 748 I a 4to contain the following poems, all mythological.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://handrit.is/da/manuscript/view/da/AM04-0748-I-a|title=Eddadigte {{!}} Håndskrift {{!}} Handrit.is|last=|first=|date=|website=handrit.is|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331075255/https://handrit.is/da/manuscript/view/AM04-0748-I-a|archive-date=31 March 2016|access-date=2020-01-04}}</ref>

*''[[Grímnismál]]'' (complete)
*''[[Hymiskviða]]'' (complete)
*''[[Baldrs draumar]]'' (complete)
*''[[Skírnismál]]'' (partial)
*''[[Hárbarðsljóð]]'' (partial)
*''[[Vafþrúðnismál]]'' (partial)
*''[[Völundarkviða]]'' (only the beginning of the prose prologue)

AM 748 I a 4to is the only mediaeval manuscript to preserve ''[[Baldrs draumar]]''. The other poems are also preserved in [[Codex Regius]].

==References==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060207135031/http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/748/am748.html AM 748 I 4to] [[Facsimile]] edition and information.

[[Category:Icelandic manuscripts]]
[[Category:14th-century books]]
[[Category:Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies collection]]


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