concept
Memory
What a mind or a culture keeps. Odin’s Muninn is a raven named Memory; that is a Norse household, not a generic faculty.
Norse tradition
Memory is sacred to Odin.
Snorri names one of Odin’s ravens Muninn, Memory. The memory is a scout that might not return, not a modern psychology.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Memory is associated with Raven.
Huginn and Muninn are ravens with jobs in thought and memory. The bird is the vehicle of that Norse household, not a folk omen of death.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Memory is connected to Knowledge.
What is remembered can be used as knowledge. Forgetting is the risk Snorri’s Odin names when he worries Muninn might not come back.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Odin is associated with Memory.
Muninn is Memory in Snorri’s household of ravens. The memory is a scout.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Knowledge is connected to Memory.
What cannot be remembered cannot be used as knowledge. Snorri’s worry about Muninn is one local picture of that risk.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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sources
- Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.