1/25/2024 0 Comments Munin hugin![]() "You with the mighty hammer you carry are too weighty for this way. "Yes, for I am Keeper of the Way to the Norns," said Heimdall. "What? Would you, Hemidall, hold me back?" said Thor. "The others may go, but you may not go that way, Thor," said Hemidall. Thor followed, but before his foot was placed on the bridge, Hemidall laid his hand upon him. Then did Odin and Tyr and Baldur step out on the bridge. Without a word Heimdall opened wide the gate that led to that bridge more colored and more tremulous than any rainbow seen from earth. "Open the gate, Heimdall," said the All-Father, "open the gate, for today the Gods would visit the holy Norns." And where the ends of the two rainbows came together Heimdall stood, Heimdall with the Golden Teeth, the Watcher for the Gods, and the Keeper of the Way to Urda's Well. This Rainbow Bridge was seldom seen by men. But another Rainbow Bridge, more beautiful and more tremulous still, went from Asgard to that root of Ygdrassil under which was Urda's Well. Odin went, and Tyr, the great swordsman, and Baldur, the most beautiful and the Best-Beloved of the Gods, and Thor, with his Hammer.Ī Rainbow Bridge went from Asgard, the City of the Gods, to Midgard, the World of Men. Let us go to the holy Norns who sit by Urda's Well and see if the shadows and the forebodings will remain when you have looked into their eyes."Īnd so it came that Odin and the Gods left Asgard and came to Urda's Well, where, under the great root of Ygdrassil, the three Norns sat, with the two fair swans below them. And when he spoke to her about these things she said, "Do not strive against what must take place. But Frigga, his Queen, saw in his eyes the shadows and forebodings of things to come. Odin All-Father did not speak to the Dwellers in Asgard of the things they told him. They told him only of shadows and forebodings. Then did the All-Father go into the Council Hall that was beside Glasir, the wood that had leaves of gold, and harken to what Hugin and Munin had to tell him. Then Odin, standing on the Watch-Tower Hlidskjalf, said to himself:Ī day passed and the ravens flew back. And once a day passed without the ravens coming back. They flew through all the worlds every day, and coming back to Asgard they would light on Odin's shoulders and tell him of all the things they had seen and heard. Odin All-Father had two ravens Hugin and Munin were their names. The All-Father's Forebearings: How Odin Leaves Asgard The Wing and String Collective is a collaborative performance ensemble whose current members include Nora Hutchinson, Jeff Bird, Peg Evans, Neal Evans, Sue Smith, and Tor Lukasik-Foss. The Wing and String Collective is interested in the creation of new works hybridizing opera, traditional folk music, theatre, and performance art together. Past works include: In Safe Places (performed throughout Ontario between 1996 to 2003), If You Hate This Planet (1996 to 1997), Urban Hootenany (2007), and The Soul of The Street (2011). Their latest collaborative work is Hugin and Munin: A Song Cycle (2015).Norse Mythology and Viking Legends for Kids Hugin and Munin is an original cycle of songs and performances that explores the significance of this passage, particularly as an allegory for our current times: who/what gathers information and monitors the activities of our world, and who/what synthesizes that knowledge? Do we have a collective anxiety that thought (hugin) and memory (munin) are in a state of precariousness? Are we experiencing the dawn of a new era of consciousness or unconsciousness? There is a brief and cryptic passage in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál (one of the foundational works of Norse Mythology), that talks about a relationship between Odin, the all-father of Norse gods, and a pair of ravens, Hugin (a Norse word for ‘thought’) and Munin (‘mind’ or ‘memory’).
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