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Webster 1913 Edition
Edda
Ed′da
,Noun.
pl.
Eddas
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. [Icel., lit.
great-grandmother
(i. e., of Scandinavian poetry), so called by Bishop Brynjúlf 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.