Edda
[ˈɛd.də]Meaning
Italian form of Hedda; also possibly from Old Norse "great-grandmother".
Background Story
Edda is an Italian form of Hedda, and it is also used in Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish and Slovak. A separate derivation is possibly from an Old Norse word meaning "great-grandmother", the term applied to two 13th-century Icelandic works, the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda. Edda is also the name of a character in the Poetic Edda, though it is unclear whether her name is connected to the name of the collection.
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