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Specialty Expressions: HUGIN AND MUNIN

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Hugin and MuninLiterature1: "Perhaps the nursery saying, `A little bird told me that,' is a corruption of Hugo and Munin, and so we have the old Northern superstition lingering among us without our being aware of it." - Julia Goddard: Joyce Dormer's Story, ii. 11. (See Bird.)
2: [mind and memory]. The two ravens that sit on the shoulders of Odin or Alfader. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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