Meaning & Origin
A collection of Old Norse poems and tales from two medieval manuscripts found in Iceland.
Edda is a girl's baby name of Old Norse origin, the name given to two collections of medieval Icelandic literature — the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda — which preserve the myths and poetry of the Norse world. The name may derive from Old Norse meaning 'great-grandmother' or be connected to the word for poetry.
Edda is a name that carries the entire mythology of the Norse world in four letters — the thunder of Thor, the wisdom of Odin, the end of Ragnarok and the beginning of the new world, all contained in a name used for centuries in Scandinavia.