Draupnir

In Norse mythology, Geri and Freki (Old Norse, both meaning "the ravenous" or "greedy one") are two wolves which are said to accompany the god Odin. They are attested in the Poetic Edda, a collection of epic poetry compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in the poetry of skalds. The pair has been compared to similar figures found in Greek, Roman and Vedic mythology, and may also be connected to beliefs surrounding the Germanic "wolf-warrior bands", the Úlfhéðnar.

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The writings of Dr. Jackson Crawford and Daniel Mc Coy are a neverending inspiration and most favoured of sources.

Kershaw, The One-eyed God; Régis Boyer, “Óðinn d’après Saxo Grammaticus et les sources norroises: étude comparative,” Beiträge zur nordischen Philologie 15 (1986): 143– 57; Peter Buchholz, “Odin: Celtic and Siberian Affinities of a Germanic Deity,” Mankind Quarterly 24:4 (1984): 427–37; Lotte Motz, “Óðinn’s Vision,” Maal og Minne 1 (1998): 11– 19; Clive Tolley, “Sources for Snorri’s Depiction of Óðinn in Ynglinga Saga: Lappish Shamanism and the Historia Norvegiae,” Maal og Minne 1 (1996): 67–79

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