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Definition of Mimir
1. Noun. (Norse mythology) giant who lives in the roots of Yggdrasil and guards the well of wisdom.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mimir
Literary usage of Mimir
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Wit and Humor by Joel Chandler Harris (1907)
"The Legend of Mimir IT is a beautiful legend of the Norseland. ... Mimir was a
rival blacksmith. He didn't go in very much for defensive armor, ..."
2. The Nine Worlds: Stories from Norse Mythology by Mary Elizabeth Litchfield (1890)
"... ODIN SEEKS WISDOM FROM Mimir. IT was night in Asgard, the home of the gods.
A soft light fell upon the sleeping city, showing its vine- clad hills and ..."
3. The Legends of the Wagner Drama: Studies in Mythology and Romance by Jessie Laidlay Weston (1903)
"... confesses her love, and yields in ecstasy to his embrace. Aryan Expulsion and
Return Formula—Siegfried's parentage and upbringing—Mimir and Regin—The ..."
4. The Volsunga Saga by Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, Henry Halliday Sparling, Jessie Laidlay Weston (1906)
"Now, there was a cunning smith named Mimir, and he had a brother Regin, who, ...
Now, one day Mimir was burning charcoal in the wood, when a naked child ..."
5. Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms by Carl Gustav Jung (1916)
"Mime or Mimir is a gigantic being of great wisdom, " a very old Nature God," with
whom the Norse gods associate. Later fables make of him a demon and a ..."
6. Northern Mythology: Comprising the Principal Popular Traditions and by Benjamin Thorpe (1851)
"4 The name Mimir signifies having knowledge, and seems identical with AS ...
It is then this wisdom of the deep that Mimir keeps in his well. ..."
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