Edda

<p>The term&nbsp;<b >Edda</b>&nbsp;(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse" >Old Norse</a>&nbsp;<i >Edda</i>, plural&nbsp;<i >Eddur</i>) applies to the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse" >Old Norse</a>&nbsp;<i ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_Edda" title="Poetic Edda" >Poetic Edda</a></i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose_Edda" title="Prose Edda" >Prose Edda</a></i>, both of which were written down in&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Iceland" title="Medieval Iceland" class="mw-redirect" >Iceland</a>&nbsp;during the 13th century in Icelandic, although they contain material from earlier traditional sources, reaching into the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age" title="Viking Age" >Viking Age</a>. The books are the main sources of medieval&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skald" title="Skald" >skaldic</a>&nbsp;tradition in Iceland and&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology" title="Norse mythology" >Norse mythology</a>.</p>