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Huginn and Muninn sit on Odin's shoulders in an illustration from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript Odin enthroned and holding his spear Gungnir, flanked by his ravens Huginn and Muninn and wolves Geri and Freki (1882) by Carl Emil Doepler. Scholars have linked Odin's relation to Huginn and Muninn to shamanic practice.
In Norse mythology, Huginn and Muninn are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring the god Odin information. Huginn and Muninn are attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; in the Third Grammatical Treatise, compiled in the 13th century by ...
Huginn ok Muninn fljúga hverjan dag jörmungrund yfir; óumk ek Hugin, at hann aftr né komi, þó sjáumk ek meir of Munin." [2] Two ravens sit on Odin's shoulders, and bring to his ears all that they hear and see. Their names are Huginn and Muninn. At dawn he sends them out to fly over the whole world, and they come back at breakfast time.
During Skaife's tenure, only one raven, Muninn, escaped, but was captured by a member of the public. [53] On Saint George's Day (23 April) 2019, four chicks were hatched from ravens Huginn and Muninn (named after Odin's mythical ravens), the first to do so at the Tower since 1989. One of the chicks remains at the Tower and has been named George ...
Huginn and Muninn- Two crows. They serve as Odin's spies, flying around and bringing him information. Abidemi and Kayode- Elephants who are friends of Obatala. They protect Diana's body while Gus goes into the underworlds to save her. Tan- A were-lion who tries to eat Kali, Oya and Tigre by tricking them into going into his cave.
Huginn and Muninn (フギン&ムニン, Fugin & Munin) Voiced by: Taisuke Nakano (Huginn), Tomohiro Yamaguchi (Muninn) [7] (Japanese); Michael Chapman (Huginn), Ben Pronsky (Muninn) (English) A pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring information to the god Odin. They are usually seen resting on Odin's shoulders.
The story even includes a pun about a sparrow, which served as a euphemism for female genitals. The story, which predates the Grimms' by nearly two centuries, actually uses the phrase "the sauce of Love." The Grimms didn't just shy away from the feminine details of sex, their telling of the stories repeatedly highlight violent acts against women.
Bernd Heinrich theorizes that Geri and Freki, along with Odin and his ravens Huginn and Muninn, reflect a symbiosis observed in the natural world among ravens, wolves, and humans on the hunt: In a biological symbiosis one organism typically shores up some weakness or deficiency of the other(s).