Complete the sentence about Icelandic literature with the correct year: The first and original manuscript of the Poetic Edda is the Codex Regius, found in southern Iceland in ______ by Brynjólfur Sveinsson, Bishop of Skálholt.
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Correct answer: A. 1643
The first and original manuscript of the Poetic Edda is the Codex Regius, found in southern Iceland in 1643.
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