Edda

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 34

ed′a, n. the name of two Scand in avian books—the 'Elder' Edda, a collection of ancient mythological and heroic songs (9th-11th century); and the 'Younger' or prose Edda, by Snorri Sturluson ( c. 1230), mythological stories, poetics, and prosody. [Ice., 'great-grandmother.']