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Every morning the two ravens Huginn and Muninn, are loosed and fly over Midgard. They travel as spies across the world collecting news and information, with which they return to their master Odin at dusk and whisper to him the events of the day.

When translated ‘Huginn’ becomes Thought and ‘Muninn’ becomes Memory.

The message within the tale is to be like these ravens and pass on the thoughts and memories that we accumulate over the years. Thus preventing our stories, achievements and teachings from being forgotten. Note how Odin himself expresses how he fears the loss of Memory the most.

Old Norse:
Huginn ok Muninn fliúga hverian dag
iörmungrund yfir;
óomk ek of Huginn, at hann aptr ne komit,
þó siámk meirr um Muninn.

English:
The whole world wide, every day,
fly Hugin and Munin;
I worry lest Hugin should fall in flight,
yet more I fear for Munin.

Hope you all like this image, took me longer than expected to finish! It was a love/hate relationship too, some days I really struggled to make any decent progress, but then other days were great fun. Just the way art goes I guess. Anyway, I'm finally satisfied with the result and I learnt quite a bit too.

Update:
I decided to paint the ravens as Albino (white). I couldn’t find any official description stating that Huginn and Muninn are supposed to be black Ravens; people just assume they are - So I decided to be different. Besides I feel white symbolises thoughts and memories better, it’s more melancholy.

The sunset and night sky suggest the idea of time, which is important to the story. The colours illustrate the darkness of losing your mind, but also the soothing comfort of memories.

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