Edda
noun
a female given name.
Eddaic
-
a word derived from
Edda.
Example Sentences
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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 Edmund Gosse
It is full of Eddaic poetry and mythology.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
It may, however, not impossibly, be altogether spurious as a poem of great antiquity, and may merely be the production of some Icelandic monk, anxious to imitate the Eddaic form and spirit.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
The n. ragin signified rath, council, the pl. of which, regin, Is used in the Eddaic Poems for the gods; that is to say, the consulting, deliberating deities.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
The wolf, as a beast for the deity to ride, is strongly Eddaic.
From Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland
