![]() Lindow says the Grímnismál stanza where Odin worries about the return of Huginn and Muninn "would be consistent with the danger that the shaman faces on the trance-state journey." ![]() John Lindow relates Odin's ability to send his "thought" (Huginn) and "mind" (Muninn) to the trance-state journey of shamans. Scholars have been wondering for a long time about the meaning of the above verses. I fear for Thought lest he never come back, but I am still more fearful about Mind. Thought and Mind fly every day over the mighty earth Huginn and Muninn, over the fields of earthīut of Muninu I have greater fear than this.ġ866 Benjamin Thorpe in Edda Sæmundar Hinns Frôða “The Lay of Grimnir” 1883 Gudbrand Vigfusson in Corpus Poeticum Boreale “The Sayings of the Hooded One”ġ883 Gudbrand Vigfusson in Corpus Poeticum Boreale “The Sayings of the Hooded One” I include here four different translations of the stanza in question so that you can get better feeling for what Odin is saying.ġ797 Amos Simon Cottle in Icelandic Poetry “The Song of Grimnir”ġ851 C.P. ![]() In the Poetic Edda sonnet Grímnismál, the god Odin (camouflaged as Grímnir) tells Agnarr, the young son of King Geirröðr a very strange thing about his two ravens. It is said that this is the reason why one of Odin's names was “raven-god” (hrafnaguð). They would then tell Odin everything they saw and heard. Every day, Odin would send them out at dawn, and the birds would fly all over the world before returning at dinner-time. Odin had two ravens named Huginn (Old Norse “thought”) and Muninn (Old Norse “mind”).
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