i.e. Edwin’s burgh. The fort built by Edwin, king of Northumbria (616–633). Dun Eden or Dunedin, is a Saxon form; Edina a poetical one.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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