Louise S. McGehee School English I By Sarah Roberts and Kaitlyn Cole

1. Mythology: Hugin and Munin Louise S. McGehee School English I By Sarah Roberts and Kaitlyn Cole Louise S. McGehee School English I 2004 (Joe)

2. Hugin and Munin • Hugin and Munin are ravens • Ravens are large black birds of the genus Corvus • Hugin and Munin can talk and give information to Odin, a Norse God (Wikipedia)

3. Hugin and Munin • Hugin means “thought” and Munin means “memory” • They are ravens, birds that have fairly long curved beaks and are dark colored (black) • They come from Norse Mythology, which takes place in Northern Europe (Geijtenbeek)

4. Hugin and Munin are a pair of ravens associated with the Norse god Odin • travel the world to bring news and information to Odin • they perch on the god’s shoulders and shared the news with him • Why Does Odin have Hugin and Munin? • Odin would sit on a high seat and watch over the world. Hugin and Munin were his two ravens who would go out into the world and come back every evening and sit on his shoulders and report to him what they had heard. Odin was like the Zeus of Norse mythology. (Magnus)

5. Hugin and Munin • Relation to modern world: • The story, “Oh! My Goddess” a Japanese cartoon written by Fujishima Kousuke, all relates to Norse Mythology (Animania)

6. Summary of a Hugin and Munin Myth The first Norse gods In Norse mythology gods weren’t created first, giants created them. The first man to be created by the giants was Buri who had a son named Bor. Bor then got married to Bestla, the daughter of a giant, and they had three sons: Odin, the eldest, then Vili, and then Ve. The three sons became the first Norse gods. The three sons killed Ymir, a giant, and they created the world using his body. They used his flesh to make the earth, his blood made up the sea, his bones made up mountains, rocks, and pebbles, and from his hair they created the forests. Finally from his skull they created the sky and his brains made up the clouds. The three gods created the first man and woman on earth and they were made from two trees, an ash and an elm tree. The man was created from the ash tree, and his name was Ask. The woman was made form the elm tree, and her name was Embla. Odin was the one to give them blood and the breath of life. (Magnus)

7. Works Cited “Assorted Playing Cards.” Animania. 1993. January 16, 2004. <http://www.animania-ent.com/playing%20cards.html>. Geijtenbeek, Rijk van. “Hugin and Munin. Opera Software. October 8, 2003. Rijk, Rijk van Geijtenbeek. January 7, 2004. <http://home.concepts-ict.nl/~rijk/opera/huginmunin.html>. Hales, Stephen. MD “Winged Figures in Legend and Mythology.” Louise S. McGehee School eGATE. 2000. Louise S. McGehee School, Ryan Chipman. January 7, 2004. <http://www.mcgehee.k12.la.us/mcgehee/index.html>.

8. Works Cited “Hugin’s and Munin’s Nest.” Magnus Index. 1998. January 7, 2004. <http://w1.859.telia.com/~u85903393/hugin_och_munin.htm >. Joe, Jimmy. “Search for Wisdom.” Timeless Myths. 1999. Jimmy Joe. January 15, 2004. <http://www.timelessmyths.com/>. Lienhard, John H. “No. 1036: Raven Cooperation.” “Raven.” Wikipedia. November 27, 2003. January 7, 2004. <http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven>.

9. Works Cited Rosenberg, Donna. “The Creation, Death, and Rebirth of the Universe.” World Mythology: An Anthology of Great Myths and Epics. Ed. Donna Rosenberg. Chicago: Contemporary Publishing Group, 1999. 461-466.