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Edda
Body of ancient Icelandic literature. Contained in two 13th-cent. books, it is the fullest and most detailed source for modern knowledge of Germanic mythology. The Prose Edda (or Younger Edda or Snorra-Edda; c.1222), a handbook on poetics by Snorri Sturluson, explains diction and meter in skaldic and Eddic poetry and recounts tales from Norse mythology. The Poetic Edda (Elder Edda, Sæ mundar Edda; c.1250-1300) is a collection of mythological and heroic poems of unknown authorship composed c.800-1100. These austere lays are the oldest surviving antecedents of the Nibelungenlied legends.


Reading
City (pop., 1994 est.: 139,000), county seat of Berkshire, England, west of London. It was a Danish encampment as early as AD 871 and was given a town charter by King Henry III in 1253. It suffered severely in the English Civil Wars of the mid-17th cent. By that time the town's trade, notably in clothing, had begun to decline. O. Wilde was imprisoned in Reading Gaol in 1897. It is now an agricultural center noted for the bulbs produced in its nurseries. It is the site of a university, and its industries include computer production, and malting and brewing.


-->red fox

Either of two fox species: Vulpes vulpes, found throughout Europe, temperate Asia, and N Africa, or V. fulva of N. America. It has a reddish brown coat. The tail is white-tipped; the ears and legs are black. Red foxes are 36-42 in. (90-105 cm) long, incl. the 15-in. (38-cm) tail; stand about 16 in. (40 cm) tall; and weigh about 15 lbs (7 kg). They eat small mammals, eggs, fruit, and birds. They are hunted for sport and fur and are raised commercially for pelts. N. Amer. red foxes exhibit black and silver color phases.


-->Red Sea

Narrow inland sea between the Arabian Peninsula and NE Africa. It extends southeast from Suez, Egypt, for about 1,200 mi (1,930 km) to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects with the Gulf of Aden and then with the Arabian Sea. It separates the coasts of Egypt, the Sudan, and Eritrea from those of Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It contains some of the world's warmest and saltiest seawater. With its connection to the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal, it is one of the most heavily traveled waterways in the world, carrying traffic between Europe and Asia. Its name is derived from the color changes observed in its waters.


redbud
Any of the shrubs or small trees that make up the genus Cercis (family Leguminosae), native to N. America, S Europe, and Asia, and widely planted for their showy early-spring flowers and interesting branch patterns. Clusters of small, purplish-pink flowers appear on old stems and branches before the leaves unfurl. The heart-shaped to roundish leaves quickly turn from bronzy to bright green, then to yellow in fall. The eastern redbud (C. canadensis) is the hardiest species.


redfish
Commercially important food fish (Sebastes marinus) of the scorpion fish family ...

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