Odin felt her vision, and paid a visit to Gróa's library, demanding to know what she had seen in her vision. After reading the runic incantations in an ancient tome, her powers became so great that she saw a vision about Ragnarök: a three-year winter where the Realms quaked and the skies split, a horrible terror emerging with a flaming sword, an enormous wolf, Gods fighting against each other, and a white ghost from another land with his son at the cnetre of the events leading up to it all. However, she still could not find out anything about her husband's whereabouts. In the process, Gróa became one of the most powerful practitioners of seiðr in the Realms, so powerful in fact that even Odin often asked for her knowledge. During the quest, Aurvandil apparently suffered from a bout of frostbite and had to be carried by Thor, who eventually lost Aurvandil in the tundra.Īfter his disappearance, Gróa traversed the Realms looking for ancient tomes that would augment her prophetic powers in order to discover Aurvandil's whereabouts. At some point, Thor asked for Aurvandil's help for a quest in Vanaheim. Gróa was a gifted sorceress who at some point married the warrior Aurvandil.
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In the God of War Series The Lost Pages of Norse Myth While this sounds like an anticlimactic end to Mímir’s story, the more interesting part of it actually comes after his death.Gróa is a völva and practitioner of seiðr, the wife of Aurvandil the Bold. After that, the Vanir decapitated Mímir’s corpse and sent his head to Asgard as a message. However, because Hœnir acted hesitantly whenever Mímir wasn’t by his side to offer counsel, the Vanir suspected Mímir of cheating and killed him.
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The Æsir and the Vanir gods of Asgard quarreled and fought frequently, including in the famous Æsir-Vanir War during which the Vanir fought for “equal status” with the Æsir after the latter had tortured and killed the Vanir goddess Gullveig.Īfter many battles and tragic deaths, the two races declared a truce and exchanged hostages while negotiating peace – the Vanir gods Njörd and Freyr went to live with the Æsir while the Æsir gods Mímir and Hœnir (pronounced Hoenir) went to live with the Vanir.ĭuring the negotiations, Mímir was tasked with counseling Hœnir who acted as the “chief” negotiator for the Æsir. In English, for example, it’s related to the word memory. This verb is common in many ancient and modern European and Middle-Eastern languages. It translates to the Rememberer or The Wise One. Mímir’s name has a curious origin as it stems from the Proto-Indo-European verb (s)mer-, meaning to think, recall, remember, reflect, or worry. This distinction is important as the war between the Æsir and the Vanir is a key point in Mímir’s story. There’s also the Vanir race of gods such as Njörd and Freyr, usually representing fertility, wealth, and commerce. In any case, the most important aspect of Mímir is that he’s the wisest of all the Æsir gods as well as being a water spirit.Īs for the Æsir themselves, they are the more warlike tribe of Norse gods which includes most of the famous Norse deities such as Odin, Thor, Loki, Heimdallr, and others. Sometimes he’s depicted with Yggdrasil upon him or near him. Mímir is generally represented as an aged man, often bodiless. While he’s a famous Norse symbol of wisdom, there isn’t a single agreed upon depiction of him. Mímir or Mim, as he’s known from the 13 th century Prose Edda and Poetic Edda is an old Æsir (pronounced Aesir) god, believed by many scholars to have been Odin’s uncle. Another god is even more renowned for his wisdom – and that’s the deity Mímir. However, even he adheres to the wise counsel of other wiser deities, and even as the All-Father of Norse mythology he’s not the oldest god.
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The Nordic god Odin is widely recognized as the god of wisdom in the Norse pantheon.