edda in English

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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.
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1. Edda could therefore mean "book of Oddi."

2. Their story is counterpointed by a subplot involving housewife Edda Barends, who is kidnapped.

3. The sources for these stanzas are not provided in the Prose Edda or elsewhere.

4. The story of Balder’s death, told in the ‘Prose (or Younger) Edda’, is one of the most complete Norse myths

5. Brunhild (Germanic mythology) A shieldmaiden and valkyrie in Germanic mythology, a main character in the Nibelungenlied, Völsunga saga, and some poems of the Poetic Edda

6. Transcript: Edda: don't you want to be deeply, emotionally, maturely in love? woman: does that mean we can't be clothes tearingly, hoarse moaningly, hot Breathingly

7. Edda Giselle Rosetta Nuñez Clarette (born September 24, 1979), better known by her screen name Julia Clarete (Tagalog pronunciation: ), is a Filipino singer, actress, television host, and performer

8. Edda: What did you mean, you think it's possible you may be in love the way amos and I were in love brussels? Woman: I mean, hot Breathingly, clothes tearingly, pelvic thrustingly, hoarse moaningly

9. The Voice-Adjunction theory of agentive ‘by’-phrases and the Icelandic impersonal passive* Anton Karl Ingason, 1Iris Edda Nowenstein, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson2 1University of Iceland and 2University of Pennsylvania Abstract We investigate ‘by’-phrases in the Icelandic impersonal passive and argue that

10. In return, I hope to send you, if I can lay my hands on it (I hope it isn't lost), a thing I did many years ago while trying to learn the art of writing alliterative poetry: an attempt to unify the lays about the Völsungs from the Elder Edda, written in the old eight-line fornyrðislag stanza."

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12. Brunhild, also spelled Brynhild, Brunhilda, Brunhilde, or Brünhild, a beautiful Amazon-like princess in ancient Germanic heroic literature, known originally from Old Norse sources (the Edda poems and the Vǫlsunga saga) and from the Nibelungenlied in German and more recently from Richard Wagner’s late 19th-century opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (“The Ring of the Nibelung”), adapted

13. The Apocryphal story is not supported by any authority that I have met with.: A tale is told of the origin of the names of some of the islands, which is original, if Apocryphal.: And the private life of Columbus is epitomised in the Apocryphal story of making an egg stand on end.: It has a certain Apocryphal reputation and is not regarded on a par with the other contents of the Poetic Edda.