- Eddic
- adjective Etymology: Old Norse Edda, a 13th century collection of mythological, heroic, and aphoristic poetry Date: 1868 of, relating to, or resembling the Old Norse Edda
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
Eddic
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