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(Author:Hugh Alexander Webster)  EDAM, a of the, in the of  and  of, about 11  north-east of , and hardly a  from the present limits of the , at the junction of two branch s. It has a fine , an , and a -, and one of its two   is adorned with , and ranks among the most beautiful  of the kind in. , -, and - are carried on, and the place gives its name to a well-known description of “sweet-” —Zoetemelks Kaas. It was at Edam that nearly the whole of 's was. of the in, 5152, and of the  3356.  EDDA, the original signification of which is “great-grandmother,” is the title given to two very remarkable collections of old ic. Of these only one bears that title from antiquity; the other is named Edda by a comparatively modern misnomer. The only work known by this name to the ancients was the miscellaneous group of writings attributed to (–), a scholar of, and the greatest name in old n. It is believed that the Edda, as he left it, was completed about. Whether he gave this name to the work is doubtful; the title first occurs in the Upsala Codex, transcribed about fifty after his death. The collection of is now known as the Prose