Edda
noun
a female given name.
Eddaic
-
a word derived from
Edda.
Example Sentences
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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 Charles Godfrey Leland
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 best of the scaldic lays, however, are greatly inferior to the Eddaic poems.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
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 William Morris
Some of older Eddaic fragments attest the great reach and deep overpowering strength of imagination possessed by their Norse ancestors; and they themselves had been quickened by a new leaven.
From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by William Morris
