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Definition of: Edda
(ed′ə)
Either of two collections of Old Icelandic or Old Norse literature: the Elder Edda, also called the Poetic Edda, containing mythological and heroic poetry of the 10th–13th centuries; and the Younger Edda or Prose Edda, a commentary on Norse mythology and composition by Snorri Sturluson (1178–1241). [<ON]
—Ed·da·ic (e·dā′ik), Ed′dic adjective
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