The manuscript contains a text of the Elder or Poetic Edda, sometimes referred to as Sæmundar Edda, in the (mistaken) belief that it had been compiled by the late 11th/early 12th-century Icelandic priest Sæmundur Sigfússon, known as Sæmundur fróði (the wise). According to the manuscript's preface, it was copied from a copy made by Páll Jónsson Vídalín (1667-1727) of Árni Magnússon's autograph copy of the Codex Regius (GKS 2365 4to), but also contains texts of several other poems that were considered part of the Eddic corpus but are not found in Codex Regius. In an afterward, it says that the manuscript was written in 1762 by Halldór Bjarnason Vídalín (1736-1801) at Reykir in Miðfjörður based on an exemplar provided by his father, Bjarni Halldórsson, sheriff of Húnavatnssýsla. It is further stated that the manuscript was copied for one Charles Bertram, an expatriate British antiquarian resident in Copenhagen. (dri)

The manuscript contains a text of the Elder or Poetic Edda, sometimes referred to as Sæmundar Edda, in the (mistaken) belief that it had been compiled by the late 11th/early 12th-century Icelandic priest Sæmundur Sigfússon, known as Sæmundur fróði (the wise). According to the manuscript's preface, it was copied from a copy made by Páll Jónsson Vídalín (1667-1727) of Árni Magnússon's autograph copy of the Codex Regius (GKS 2365 4to), but also contains texts of several other poems that were considered part of the Eddic corpus but are not found in Codex Regius. In an afterward, it says that the manuscript was written in 1762 by Halldór Bjarnason Vídalín (1736-1801) at Reykir in Miðfjörður based on an exemplar provided by his father, Bjarni Halldórsson, sheriff of Húnavatnssýsla. It is further stated that the manuscript was copied for one Charles Bertram, an expatriate British antiquarian resident in Copenhagen. (dri)