Edda
/ˈedə/- either of two 13th-century Icelandic books, the Elder or Poetic Edda (a collection of Old Norse poems on Norse legends) and the Younger or Prose Edda (a handbook to Icelandic poetry by Snorri Sturluson). The Eddas are the chief source of knowledge of Scandinavian mythology.《埃达》(13世纪冰岛的两部文学作品集之一; 一部为《老埃达》, 亦称《诗体埃达》, 它是关于古代挪威传说的挪威诗歌集; 另一部为《新埃达》, 亦称《散文埃达》, 它是斯诺里·斯图鲁松所著的冰岛诗学文集; 这两部文集是研究斯堪的纳维亚神话的主要材料)。
词源
either from the name of the great-grandmother in the Old Norse poem Rigsthul, or from Old Norse óthr 'poetry'.