edaciousness (edashusnes)

Edacity. edacity (e-das'i-ti), n. [= It. edacità, IMG:content-0212.jpg:[blocks in formation] If thou have any vendible faculty, nay, if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come. Carlyle. Edaphodon (ē-daf'ō-don), n. [NL.: see edaph odont.] A fo il genus of chimæroid fishes, of the order Holocephali, found in the Greensand, Chalk, and Tertiary strata. Buck land. edaphodont (e-daf'ō-dont), п. [ = E. tooth .] A fo il chimæroid fish of the genus Edaphodon. Edda (ed'), n. [Icel., lit. great-grandmother.] A book written (in prose) by Snorri Sturluson (born about 1178, died by a a ination 1241), containing the old mythological lore of Scand in a via and the old artificial rules for verse-making; also, a collection of ancient Ice landic poems. The name Edda, by whom given is not known, occurs for the first time in the inscription to one of the manuscripts of the work, written fifty or sixty years after Snorri's death. Snorri's Edda ( Edda Snorra Sturlu sonar) consists of five parts: Formal i (Preface), the Gylfa ginning (Delusion of Gylfi), Braga - radhur (Sayings of Bragi), Skáldskapar - mal (Art of Poetry), and Hattatal (Number of Meters), to which are added in some manuscripts Thu lur, or a rhymed glo ary of synonyms, lists of poets, etc. As the Skaldskapar - mal, or Art of Poetry, forms the chief part of the Edda (including several long poems), the work became a sort of handbook of poets, and so Edda came gradually to mean the old artificial poetry as opposed to the modern plain poetry contained in hymns and sacred poems. About the year 1643 the Icelandic bishop Brynjulf Svein on discovered a collection of the old mythological poems, which is erroneously ascribed to Sæmund Sigfu en (born about 1055, died 1133), and hence called after him Sæmundar Edda hins Frödha, the Edda of Sæmund the Learned. The poems that compose this Edda are supposed to have been collected about the middle of the thirteenth century, but were composed probably in the eighth and ninth centuries. Hence the name now given to the collection, the Elder or Poetic Edda, in distinction from the Younger or Prose Edda of Snorri, to which alone the name Edda previously belonged. The most ancient of the poems in the Elder Edda is the Völuspa, the Prophecy of the Völva or sibyl.