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Iduna can mean several things:
- One of several modern anglicizations of the name of the Norse goddess Iðunn
- A literature society co-founded by Guido von List called Iduna (literature society)
- Asteroid 176 Iduna named after the goddess
- The Iduna language of Papua New Guinea
- A genus of tree warblers
- The journal of the Geatish Society
- Iduna, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community, US
Iduna was an important literary association founded in May 1891 by a circle of writers around Fritz Lemmermayer. Lemmermayer acted as a sort of "middle man" between an older generation of authors (which included Fercher von Steinwand, Joseph Tandler, Auguste Hyrtl, Ludwig von Mertens, and Josephone von Knorr) and a group of younger writers and thinkers (which included Rudolf Steiner, Marie Eugenie delle Grazie, and Karl Maria Heidt).
The society had the descriptive subtitle of "Free German Society for Literature".
The name Iduna was provided by Guido von List himself and is that of a North Germanic goddess of eternal youth and renewal.
Richard von Kralik and Joseph Kalasanz Poestion, authors with specifically neo-Germanic leanings, where also involved in the circle.
The circle dissolved in 1893 when the ' Literarische Donaugesellschaft' (Danubian Literary Society) grew out of its ashes and was founded by Guido von List and Fanny Wschiansky.
Category:Literary societies
Iduna is a genus of tree warbler in the Acrocephalidae family. Keyserling and Blasius gave no explanation of the genus name Iduna. It is sometimes lumped in the genus Hippolais, although in 2009it was found to belong to the Iduna clade.
It contains the following species:
- Thick-billed warbler (Iduna aedon)
- African yellow warbler (Iduna natalensis)
- Mountain yellow warbler (Iduna similis)
- Booted warbler (Iduna caligata)
- Sykes's warbler (Iduna rama)
- Eastern olivaceous warbler (Iduna pallida)
- Western olivaceous warbler (Iduna opaca)