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Huginn (Old Norse "thought") and Muninn (Old Norse "memory") are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world

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The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes almanac manageableThe poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a thirteenth century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lions share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the