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edda \ed"da\, n.; pl. eddas. icel., lit. great-grandmother
i. e., of scandinavian poetry, so called by bishop
brynj'ulf sveinsson, who brought it again to light in
1643.
the religious or mythological book of the old scandinavian
tribes of german origin, containing two collections of sagas
legends, myths of the old northern gods and heroes.
1913 webster
note: there are two eddas. the older, consisting of 39 poems,
was reduced to writing from oral tradition in iceland
between 1050 and 1133. the younger or prose edda,
called also the edda of snorri, is the work of
several writers, though usually ascribed to snorri
sturleson, who was born in 1178. eddaic
see also:
eddas prose edda edda of snorri
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