Eddaland administratively designated by Nigeria as Afikpo South covers an entire local government area in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. It is the homeland of a culturally distinct people known as who are often misconstrued to be a sub-class of the dominant Igbo ethnic group of South East Nigeria. Eddic call their place Eddaland or just Edda. Outside Africa, Edda is more popularly associated with Icelandic Viking folklores and ancient Nordic mythology where Edda is considered a lost civilization. While there is today no clearly established historical correlation of Eddaland also called Edda and the Eddish people enfolded in what is now Nigeria to Nordic ancestry; elements of some ancient Nordic Viking religious mythology written of in the 13 century CE Icelandic Poetic Edda where the name Edda fi