[[Image:Odin hrafnar.jpg|thumb|300px|Huginn and Muninn sit on Odin's shoulders in this illustration from an 18th century Icelandic manuscript.
...in''' and '''Munin'''), are a pair of ravens associated with the Norse god Odin.
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[[Image:Baugi.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Baugi drills into the mountain so Odin can get inside. Illustration from an 18th century Icelandic manuscript.]]
...ow cut the harvest, they asked insistently that he sell the stone to them. Odin told them he would only sell it at a very considerable price, but they agre
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In Norse mythology, '''Sleipnir''' is Odin's magical eight-legged steed, and the greatest of all horses.
...elate to an earlier form of Odin as a sun-god. There is some evidence that Odin himself was at one time anthropomorphized as a horse; Sleipnir's ability to
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[[Image:Odin_wildhunt.jpg|250px|thumb|''Odin's Wild Hunt'' by PN Arbo]]
The '''Norse Wild Hunt''' was led by [[Odin]] and as for the general concept of [[Wild Hunt]] it was meant as a raid to
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...ut is ultimately destined to grow too large for his bonds and devours '''[[Odin]]''' during the course of '''Ragnarök'''. At that time he will have grown
After killing Odin he gets murdered by Odin's son, '''idar ''', who, according to different accounts, either stabs him
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...gods, and all the fire giants themselves except a man and a woman set by [[Odin]] in a great forest that did not burn down.
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[[King Arthur]], [[Odin]], Lady Abonde, Finn and [[Gwyn ap Nudd]] are among the long list of other
...rmed into animals by rage, are most commonly associated with the cult of [[Odin]] from ninth century Norway onward.
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...all fraud". He mixed freely with the gods for a long time, even becoming [[Odin]]'s blood brother. Despite much research, "the figure of Loki remains obscu
Like [[Odin]] (though to a lesser extent), Loki bears many names : the Sly-One, the Sly
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Also called Joen's Hunt, where the name Joen is derived from Odin (Othin), the leader of the hunt. Other terms include ''gangferd'' (Northern
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...ning struck the wild forests where the huldras lived. This storm suggested Odin's berserker rage against his rivals, the trolls, including huldras. (Before
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...orse of the hanged." In the case of "terrible steed", the association with Odin may be secondary, and any number of riders possible. A third interpretation
...em of the ''Poetic Edda''. In stanza 2, the völva (or seeress) who advises Odin, recalls her own ancient past when the universe was young. Yggdrasil 'the g
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...are giants. Njord is married to Skaði, Gerðr becomes the consort of Freyr, Odin gains the love of Gunnlod, and even Thor, the great slayer of their kind, b
...origin from a certain Búri. When the giant Ymir subsequently was slain by Odin, Vili and Vé (the grandsons of Búri), his blood (i.e. water) deluged Nifl
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The dwarves came into existence while [[Odin]] and his brothers [[Vili]] and [[Vé]] fabricated the world from the corps
...us creations are the spear [[Gungnir]] and the golden ring [[Draupnir]] of Odin, [[Mjolnir]] the hammer of [[Thor]], the golden hair of [[Sif]], [[Freyja]]
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Also Norse mythology contains examples of [[necromancy]]: Odin summons a seeress from the dead to tell him of the future. In the first par
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''Baldrs draumar'' describes a journey which Odin makes to [[Hel]]. Along the way he meets a dog.
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According to the [[Prose Edda]], [[Odin]] took [[Loki]]'s three children, [[Fenrisúlfr]], [[Hel]] and Jörmungandr
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...character of Billy Blind is probably a reminiscence of the god Woden or [[Odin]] from Germanic mythology, and later evolved into ''Blind Harie'', the "bl
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...eb of war (see below). According to the ''Prose Edda'' (Gylfaginning 36), “Odin sends the valkyries to every battle. They allot death to men and govern vic
...ff to Valhalla where they became ''einherjar''. This was necessary because Odin needed warriors to fight at his side at the preordained battle at the end o
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...logy of Georges Dumézil, attempt to trace parallels in Germanic mythology (Odin and the mead of poetry, the eagle stealing golden apples of eternal youth).
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