Edda

Edda is a name written in vellum. The Prose Edda and Poetic Edda are the foundational texts of Old Norse mythology, compiled in thirteenth-century Iceland, and the name carries that mythic weight without feeling heavy. Its Germanic root may mean great-grandmother or reach back through Old High German for ancestor, giving it a matriarchal undertow. In Iceland, Germany, and Hungary it has a small, devoted following. Two clipped syllables, a double D like a soft heartbeat, it feels both rune-stone ancient and cleanly modern. A name for someone who reads the sagas and quotes them over breakfast.