HUGIN AND MUNIN

Domain	Definition
Literature	Hugin and Munin [mind and memory]. The two ravens that sit on the shoulders of Odin or Alfader. "Perhaps the nursery saying, `A little bird told me that,' is a corruption of Hugo and Munin, and so we have the old Northern superstition lingering among us without our being aware of it." - Julia Goddard: Joyce Dormer's Story, ii. 11. (See Bird.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Hugin and Munin

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. 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. It is from these ravens that the kenning 'raven-god' for Odin is derived.

From Grimnismal:

The whole world wide, every day,

Fly Hugin and Munin;

I worry lest Hugin should fall in flight,

Yet more I fear for Munin.

Alternative spellings: Huginn and Muninn

Anagrams: HUGIN AND MUNIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-g-h-i-i-m-n-n-n-n-u-u"
	-4 letters: unhanding, unmanning.
	-5 letters: guanidin, inhuming.
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