Edda

Old Norse: Edda
Meaning: The meaning of the word "Edda" is "Great Grandmother" or "Ancestor". But in the Prose Edda the meaning of the word could also be a variation of the roman word edico (announce, declear).

1. Poems
2. Ai's wife

1.
The Edda were the sagas and myth of nordic mythology, written in icelandic.

- The "Elder Edda", "Poetic Edda" or "Saemundar Edda" was a collection of old norse poems. The name "Saemundr Edda" is wrong, 'couse now we know that Saemundr wasn't the autor, maybe it hadn't one single autor.
The poems were written around 1270 or 1240 (meanin' that they are younger than the Prose Edda).
The name Elder Edda isn't that wrong, 'couse the basis of the poems is older than that of the Prose Edda.

You want to read the Poetic Edda? Click Here.

- The "Younger Edda", "Prose Edda" or "Snorra Edda" was another collection of mythical and heroic poems. It was written by Snorri Sturluson around 1220 (for more informations about the autor click Here).
The poetic Edda was devided in three sections: Gylfaginning, Skaldskaparmal and Hattatal.
The Prose Edda hasn't much luck and was censured by the Catholizism.

Click Here if you want to read the "Prose Edda".

2.
There was a character named "Edda" in the Rigsthula (Poetic Edda).
Edda ("Great Grandmother") was Ai's wife. She bore Rig (=Heimdall) a son named Thraell ("Thrall" or "Slave").

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