Edda
 冰洲詩集


 Ed·da n.; pl. Eddas   The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.
 Note: ☞ There are two Eddas. The older, consisting of 39 poems, was reduced to writing from oral tradition in Iceland between 1050 and 1133. The younger or prose Edda, called also the Edda of Snorri, is the work of several writers, though usually ascribed to Snorri Sturleson, who was born in 1178.

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 edda
      n 1: tropical starchy tuberous root [syn: taro, taro root, cocoyam,
            dasheen]
      2: either of two distinct works in Old Icelandic dating from
         the late 13th century and consisting of 34 mythological
         and heroic ballads composed between 800 and 1200; the
         primary source for Scandanavian mythology