Etymology

Edda

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Today it means: A collection of Old Norse poems and tales from two medieval manuscripts found in Iceland. Full definition →

Old Norse edda
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The story

  1. Old Norse · borrowed fromedda“great-grandmother”
  2. English todayEdda

Likely from Old Norse edda (“great-grandmother”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.