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- From: loren@wmkt.wharton.upenn.edu (Loren Miller)
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- Subject: Odin's stolen drink
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 21:43:06 GMT
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- I was leafing through the Stith Thompson motif index and found a reference
- to a myth where Odin stole a drink from a race of gods and it gave him
- something. I remember the story where he gave his eye for a drink from a
- well that gave him wisdom in return, and I remember him hanging on a gallows
- for a few days before gaining something (the runes?), but I don't remember
- any situation where he stole a drink of nectar from some other race of gods.
- Anybody recall this?
-
- Thanks,
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- Loren Miller LOREN@wmkt.wharton.upenn.edu
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