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| [[Image:Odin hrafnar.jpg|thumb|300px|Huginn and Muninn sit on [[Odin]]'s shoulders in this illustration from an 18th century [[Iceland]]ic manuscript.]] | | #redirect [[Hugin and Munin]] |
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| '''Huginn and Muninn''', (sometimes anglicized '''Hugin''' and '''Munin'''), are a pair of ravens associated with the Norse god [[Odin]]. Hugin and Munin travel the world bearing news and information to Odin.
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| Hugin is "thought" and Munin is "memory". They are sent out at dawn to gather information and return in the evening. They perch on the god's shoulders and whisper the news into his ears.
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| One of Odin's many titles is Hrafna-Gud, the God of the Ravens. Odin's daughters, the warlike [[Valkyrie]]s, were sometimes said to take the shape of ravens.
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| From ''Grímnismál'':
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| ''Old Norse:''
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| :Huginn ok Muninn fliúga hverian dag
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| :iörmungrund yfir;
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| :óomk ek of Huginn, at hann aptr ne komit,
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| :þó siámk meirr um Muninn.
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| ''English:''
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| :The whole world wide, every day,
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| :fly Hugin and Munin;
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| :I worry lest Hugin should fall in flight,
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| :yet more I fear for Munin.
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| [[Category:Norse mythology]]
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| [[Category:Legendary birds]]
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