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Of the Eddaic songs only fragments now remain, but ere they perished there arose from them a saga, that now given to the readers of this.

From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by Morris, William

He missed the impress of the individual on classic sculpture, as he had missed it—the parallel is strange, but his own—on the Eddaic poems of ancient Iceland.

From Henrik Ibsen by Gosse, Edmund

Excluding French Canadian fairy tales, what we have left is chiefly Eskimo and Eddaic, and the proportion of the latter is simply surprising.

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Leland, Charles Godfrey

In the Exeter Book, too, there is a poem in substance closely resembling the Eddaic lay.

From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson

Perhaps we might give the Eddaic Twilight of the Gods a more human and strictly European interpretation.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various