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It is full of Eddaic poetry and mythology.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

I have to add that, while the story agrees with an universally spread Aryan fairy tale, it is very remarkable that it should add to these, several strictly Eddaic details, such as the white bear.

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Leland, Charles Godfrey

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

The Eddaic account of the Valkyr's disobedience to All-Father, pictures a saucy and self-willed maiden.

From The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature by Nordby, Conrad Hjalmar

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