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In the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning (chapter 38), the enthroned figure of High tells Gangleri (king Gylfi in disguise) that two ravens named Huginn and Muninn sit on Odin's shoulders. The ravens tell Odin everything they see and hear. Odin sends Huginn and Muninn out at dawn, and the birds fly all over the world before returning at dinner-time.
Huginn has a frog-like body and a cat-like head and tail while Muninn has a frog-like body and a tapir-like head. Their names and presence as Draxum's constant companions are a play on Odin's ravens Huginn and Muninn. In the episode "Goyles, Goyles, Goyles", Huginn and Muninn are shown to be looking for new employment after Draxum went into ...
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.
The birds would be the ravens Huginn and Muninn, who gathered information for Odin. The beast-heads might symbolise Odin's two wolves, Geri and Freki . However, some scholars specialising in Viking Age dress and gender representation have pointed out that the person is dressed entirely in female attire, resulting in theories that the figure may ...
Munin may refer to: . Muninn, a raven in Norse Mythology, see Huginn and Muninn. HSwMS Munin, several ships of the Swedish Navy named after the mythological raven Munin, a half-scale Gokstad ship replica in Vancouver, B.C., Canada named after the mythological raven
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).
Odin sits atop his steed Sleipnir, his ravens Huginn and Muninn and wolves Geri and Freki nearby (1895) by Lorenz Frølich. In Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, the poem Heiðreks gátur contains a riddle that mentions Sleipnir and Odin: 36. Gestumblindi said: "Who are the twain that on ten feet run? three eyes they have, but only one tail. Alright ...
Huginn and Muninn sit on Odin's shoulders in this illustration from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript.. In Abrahamic and European mythology, medieval literature and occultism, the language of the birds is postulated as a mystical, perfect divine language, Adamic language, Enochian, angelic language or a mythical or magical language used by birds to communicate with the initiated.