CentralNotice Huginn and Muninn From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search For other uses, see Hugin and Munin (disambiguation) . Huginn and Muninn sit on Odin 's shoulders in an illustration from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript In Norse mythology , Huginn (from Old Norse "thought" [ 1 ] ) and Muninn (Old Norse "memory" [ 2 ] or "mind" [ 3 ] ) are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard , and bring information to the god Odin . Huginn and Muninn are attested in the Poetic Edda , compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources: the Prose Edda and Heimskringla , written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson ; in the Third Grammatical Treatise , compiled in the 13th century by Óláfr Þórðarson ; and in the poetry of skalds . The names of the ravens are sometimes modernly anglicized as Hugin and Munin . In the...