Huginn & Muninn
Odin's two ravens, Thought and Memory, fly out over the world each morning and come back each evening to tell him what they have seen.
These pages are made the same way. On the left, a thought. On the right, something remembered: another voice, carried back.
In the Norse myths Odin keeps two ravens. At dawn he sends them out across the whole world; by evening they are back on his shoulders, speaking into his ears everything they have seen and heard.
Snorri Sturluson, writing in Iceland in the thirteenth century, says this is why Odin is called Hrafnaguð, the raven-god.
Their names are Huginn, from hugr, thought or mind, and Muninn, from munr, usually read as memory. It is memory Odin fears for most.
Huginn ok Muninn
fljúga hverjan dag
Jörmungrund yfir;
óumk ek of Hugin,
at hann aftr né komi-t,
þó sjámk meir of Munin.
Huginn and Muninn fly each day over the wide world. I fear for Huginn, that he may not come back; but I fear more for Muninn.
— Grímnismál, stanza 20