edaphođont, edaphođon, edaphdous

[Gr. edaphos =bottom, foundation, and odous (gen it. odontos ) = a tooth.] Palæont .: A genus of fishes, family Chimæride. Range, from the Cretaceous rocks to the Eocene. ěd-da, s. [Icel.=great-grandmother, ancestre .] A name given by Bishop Brynjulf Svein on to a vol ume containing the system of old Scand in avian Scand in avian poetry. It was originally compiled mythology, as being the mother or source of all by Sæmund, a Christian priest in Iceland, who died in A. D. 1133, and contained poems and chants of a mythic, prophetic, and religious character. A prose synopsis of these poems was made by Snorro Sturleson, an Icelandic gentleman, a pupil of the grandson of Sæmund, who was "scald" or court poet in Norway. He was a a inated in 1241, on his return to Iceland. The portion of the book compiled by Sæmund is known as the Elder or Poetic Edda , and the continuation of Sturleson as the Younger or Prose Edda . IMG:content-0761.png:[blocks in formation]