Ravens in Norse Mythology
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- An introduction to Huginn, Muninn, and the fleets of ravens who flutter down to feast on Viking battlefields.
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*Video starts*
*Ravens crow*
JC: {something in Norse}
Me: awesome.
Doc, never shave again; I strongly approve of your beard. Any chance of talking about huskarls and what we know about them from the sagas?
As we age, some of us loose our ability to think clearly and to remember the past. Loosing the first is bad enough , but loosing the second even more so. I believe those are the sentiments represented as Odin's.
As we age, we forget loose is an adjective.
Losing our ability to spell is worse.
joe ampolo Sadly enough, we don't even have wait until we get very old and lose them naturally, we can philosophically give up, if not on either of them proper, at least on the bond they share (i. e. memory of the past should ideally help us to think more clearly) by a process of sincere philosophical questioning mostly, if not entirely, finished by the time we are 36. Although losing them naturally to old age is certainly bad, it is nowhere near as bad as the latter, because we can at least still philosophically accept both and the bond they share even as we personally lose them. But philosophically giving up, if not on either of them proper, at least on the bond they share while we are still relatively young gives away our freedom more or less irrevocably. However, whether Odin is supposed to be implied to be represented as having a sentiment regarding this or not is a bit of a presentist question because the Eddas are from a time before it was very generally accepted that young people naturally went through a process of philosophical questioning.
its tied to your reincarnation and your ancestors
+thorr18BEM +Del Rae Loose is a verb according to the OED with a distinctly different meaning from lose. Lose means to misplace or cease to possess. Loose means to let slip or become undone. My mother's father would answer "Was ist los?" as if it were literal with "That which has become untied." I have his sense of humor. I use loose as in "Loose the hounds." I believe Shakespeare actually wrote "Let slip the dog's of war." Unless, may Heaven forbid, one is shot in the head or beheaded, one does not lose one's mind. Or, if we make a distinction between brain and mind, wherever you go there you are. So,one might lose one's body, I might suppose, but not one's mind. I was being facetious after a fashion and let slip what I was actually thinking.
+Living History School You are quite astute. My mother, her mother, and her mother's mother had early onset Alzheimer's. I'm too old for the early onset variety, but I'm familiar with the disease.
+Joseph Ruhf The poem makes a distinction between thought and memory. One might, after all, have a head full of facts and yet might be unable to think. But,yes, I see your point. Under the best of circumstances, they are both fully functional. But, I hesitate to philosophize too deeply about poetry. At some point we may lose the forest for the trees.
I was curious about this because here in Alaska we have mythology about ravens too. There are a lot of stories and variations on raven's creations. He was even able to open portals and had an appetite for humans.
Has this anything to do with the 'thunderbird' or is this a different creature or only in US native stories?
Are the ravens not a sign of a certain god or related to a certain god if yiu see one today in your herirage?
Doc Crawford, you once again amaze me. You are SO talented.
Dude this is awesome. I have a whole gang of ravens that followed me across the United States from California back to Tennessee, and now they live in a tree above our house. They always show up at the most “coincidental times” to give me signs and guidance. Truly amazing. In Native American lore they call it warrior medicine. They also delivered 1 of their wing feathers and tail feathers to me when I visited the Hindi temple in California. Magical. Unbelievable even, definitely something very spiritually significant about them ,and it coincides with my own spiritual awakening timeline. Thanks for this information.
Thank you Dr Crawford.
Excelent Mr. Crawford. Could you speak about the einherjar on the next videos? We'd be much appreciated.
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With how often we see metaphor used in Norse myth, I think taming Huginn and Muninn meant Oðinn had tamed his thought and his memory, which very few people have accomplished.
Thank you for covering some Raven info. I’m a Scandinavian Viking age persona in the SCA, and Ravens are part of my registered arms, and I took the last name Hrafnsdottir. I’m a tich obsessed. Love your videos, with luck I’ll pick up your books this month and start patreon shortly 😊
Does that stand for South Carolina area? Do you have norse or Scandinavian heritage then :)?
Another outstanding video, THANK YOU!
I love ravens. I feed them every year at my house and wear them on rings and shirts and have them decorating my rooms. I also have a Huginn and Muninn tattoo (with Fenrir behind them) on my right arm. As you say, and as I tell people, Huginn represented "thought" and Muninn represented "memory". Muninn faces behind me for that reason. I then go on to explain that because I am a Christian so I "take every THOUGHT (Huginn) captive" and I am "transformed by the renewing of my MEMORIES (Muninn)". I don't listen to my ravens. ;)
Then there's Fenrir which brings up Ragnarok and how the world will end. All really fun conversations to have.
I'm going to be memorizing this passage in Old Norse as some of my first Old Norse to add into my Viking storytelling I do.
Thanks... again!
Well, you missed one common hrafn- name, and that'd be Hrafnhild(u)r. In Faroese, btw., only Ravnur has survived but it's rare. The others would have the forms: Revna, Ravnkil, and Ravnhild(ur). I don't see Revna being revived as it has the same form as the common noun revna. It's a Danish loan word (from revne) and it means "crack" as in a crack in a piece of glas. The Faroese cognate is riva. However, all except Ravnkil are in the list of approved Faroese names so there's no reason why they wouldn't make a comeback.
Great video as always!
Thank you 😀
Yet another excellent video! Thank you for all your hard work!
Hello, your logo looks a lot like my old High school's logo. I say logo because we didn't have a mascot because we simply were the Colome Cowboys. Haha. Thank you for all the videos Dr. Crawford. I've enjoyed them a great deal and looking forward to your next. Have a great day.
Man that could not have been a better intro, ravens cawing behind you while reading the strophe about Huginn and Muninn
i take care of wild ravens in my area and i just got tattoos of huginn and muninn yesterday. funny aint it
What do you mean "take care", I'm pretty sure wild ravens can take care of themselves!
I really appreciate these videos you put out, and especially love the ravens and wolves in Norse mythology. A thought - since ravens and wolves do work together during hunting, is it possible that Freki and Geri, Huginn and Muninn could be related in that sense? I haven't read anything that mentions them together, but I would like to think that with the ravens representing the mind and the wolves representing desire (hunger), together they are a representation of Odinn's hunger for knowledge? Do correct me if i am way off or anything, I would love to learn more!
Yes, ravens and wolves
I speak only from natural science. Because ravens can only eat soft parts and have little power to open the dead to scavenge, they eat first the eyes, they "court" larger animals e.g. wolves, who can open a carcass.
Thus, sometime when you are hunting, the raven will call to you wanting your attention. He wants you to follow and open a dead thing he has found.
Perhaps this is described in Norse poetry?
I really like this video. Greetings from Norway
It was a little difficult to read the white text due to the clouds in the background. As a note, white text with black outline (and vise versa) is visible on any background color. Keep up all the great work that you do! I enjoy all these videos.
Yet there was black outline on his larger letters displaying Hrafn, Hrefna, etc.
Mattie Miller surely he can’t be blamed for cloud cover.
Just got your books! I'm excited to read them.
LOVE the shirt!
just discovered your videos. ive been researching my ancestry for years, though with so much migration and not enough written, it's difficult. in general, i would say my origins are northern germanic, but again, impossible to know for sure. anyway, finding your roots connects you to the past and its beliefs and traditions so in finding your videos, I'm discovering more of that as well. I'd love to major in germanic studies but i haven't yet decided. again, thanks for taking the time to make these.
New books!!! I cannot wait!!
As always, excellent video, thank you! Hugs & sunshine 🌞 N
Beautiful poems!
Great video! I would love to see the runes for the Grimnismal poetry of Huginn ok Muninn
Great video!
You have to wonder about the Ravens in the Tower Of London, if they had a private meaning to the outwardly Christian Norman original occupants of said tower.
Typically, We see ravens fly east to west in mornings, and west to east in evenings to complete the KVERVANDI (nature’s cycle) and it has been said that vikings believed that the Raven drags the light across the sky, thus an exceptionally important bird to sustain life on earth. Thanks for your insight into the past, lucky to live in England with much documented history in London museums on biking invasions, all kings of England descendants from the Vikings. Soon, I split a storm damaged oak tree following Viking riving technique in respect of my swedish ancestory.
Dr. Crawford, in the future, do you. Think you'll do a video adressing norse body painting/ashing? And how it differentiates between germanic, norse, and celtic tribes?
Perhaps something on clothing or battle adornment?
As an added little information Hrefna in modern Icelandic means Minke Whale.
I like the eight legs on the horse. Greetings from The Cowboy Capital of The World. Oakdale, CA
Thanks for the video. I kind of prefer the static text without all the effects however. Just my two cents :)
Thank you
Id like to know more about Dr. Crawford's personal life
He's a very private person he mentioned in a video already. He is probably already married if you are wondering about it. Don't think he would be an easy prince to win. 😅
HI DR.CRAWFORD YOUR CONTENT IS GREAT.WAS WATCHING A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT CAVE PAINTINGS IN THE PYRENEES. MANY OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF STONE AGE ANIMALS HAVE 8 LEGS DENOTING MOVEMENT.THOUGHT OF ODINS HORSE IMMEDIATELY. ANY THOUGHTS FROM YOU OR YOUR COMMUNITY.
Hrafnhildur, meaning raven battle in Icelandic, is a very, very common women’s name in Iceland
Other than Fréya’s falcon suit; are their any other mentions of Falcon’s in Old Norse lit?
Hrafnkell = raven-helm had a particular devotion to Freyr.
Maybe Hrankels dad had a particular devotion to Odhin?
Grātiās tibi agō! Ut jam dīxī, opera tua mihi multum placent, domine! :)
*scrībis (scrībēs = fut.)
Audīvī enim hunc magistrum linguae Latīnae necnōn Graecae studuisse quoque... et cum paucī sint quī eum hīs linguīs alloquantur, allocūtus sum ego :)
Grātiās et tibi prō respōnsō longō! Intellegō^ :) (etsī scrībō ipse nunc breviter tantum...)
Latin? Hvat sœkið þér hér?
mate that shirt tho
Jackson John McLean Straight out of the sixties. Wow. We could all find shirts like that back when.
Shall we call it "flaming paisley?"
I was just wondering where you got your education? Im going off to college in just over a year and this subject has become a passion of mine over the past few years so im looking to go down a simmilar road and have been looking for the perfect college for me
I know this is a old video so you may not respond but my name comes from old pretuetonic baltic for raven, wrobel. It became germanized as Robl
Bestu þakkir, enda nafnið mitt. :)
Wonder if muna has any reference to Finnish word muna=egg?
I spent the entire time watching for a crow to fly past or land on the fence.
Funny thing, in Dutch "heugen" is actually "to remember" which seems awfully similar to "Huginn". "Geheugen" is "memory". Odd that it's thought in Old Norse and not memory.
What do you think of the new God of War game Dr. Crawford? The game has brought a lot of attention to Norse Mythology.
Two interviews he did about God of War
www.videogamer.com/features/how-to-put-a-god-in-a-game-a-deep-dive-with-the-experts-into-god-of-wars-antagonist
variety.com/2018/gaming/features/god-of-war-norse-mythology-1202823019/
How do you say raven in Norse????? TY
I wonder if wetherfjord is modern wexford in Ireland
Hrafn of Thule
Waterford.
Hello Mr. Crawford how can i contact you in a private mail i have a few questions related to one text and picture.
If you become a patron he will answer questions.
I was seranaded by a lone raven yesteday, at least twice. Am still trying to figure out why Óđinn has me go outside, as the answer isn't yet clear.
I just need to know something... Is this a Viking cowboy? If so. I Fear for all men... It will not be a fair fight... The Ravens will feast...
I see ravens in my dreams. Just looking for some answers
Ravens visualized inside the depths of your unregulated, deep subconscious mind usually symbolizes the fact you had an excess of cheese puffs and Oreos before going to sleep. Or it could also mean you have 24 hours to live....good luck.
I love ravens.
[EDIT] I also find Odin to be way cooler than Thor, just speaking personally.
vé ✔️
Even your beard looks Scandinavian.