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Rigsthula – How the Castes of People Were Fathered by a God

By Henry Adams BellowsFrom The Poetic Edda [1936] The Rigsthula is found in neither of the principal codices. The only manuscript containing it is the so-called Codex Wormanius, a manuscript of Snorri’s Prose Edda. The poem appears on the last sheet of this manuscript, which unluckily is incomplete, and thus the end of the poem […]