Mimir Winterbane – Mimir
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Mimir_Winterbane#ixzz7gC5assA7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%ADmir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%ADmisbrunnr
Mimir Winterbane is a spirit trapped in the Well of Urd.
“Who trespasses in my well?! I’ll send you to the coldest corner of the afterlife!”
Mimir Winterbane
Mímir or Mim is a figure in Norse mythology, renowned for his knowledge and wisdom, who is beheaded during the Æsir-Vanir War. Afterward, the god Odin carries around Mímir’s head and it recites secret knowledge and counsel to him.
In Norse mythology, Mímisbrunnr (Old Norse “Mímir’s well”) is a well associated with the being Mímir, located beneath the world tree Yggdrasil. Mímisbrunnr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. The well is located beneath one of three roots of the world tree Yggdrasil, a root that passes into the Jötunheimr where the primordial plane of Ginnungagap once existed. In addition, the Prose Edda relates that the water of the well contains much wisdom, and that Odin sacrificed one of his eyes to the well in exchange for a drink. In the Prose Edda, Mímisbrunnr is mentioned as one of three wells existing beneath three roots of Yggdrasil, the other two being Hvergelmir, located beneath a root in Niflheim, and Urðarbrunnr.
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Both Odin and Mimir images are borrowed from Wikipedia and are in the public domain.
Odin finding Mímir’s beheaded body, a 19th century depiction by Georg Pauli – From a 19th century translation of the Poetic Edda by Erik Brate.
Odin drinks from Mímisbrunnr as Mímir looks on (1903) in a work by Robert Engels (1866-1920). – Lange, Adolf (1903). Deutsche Götter- und Heldensagen. B. G. Teubner, Leipzig. Page 44. Digitized version from Google Books. Odin am Brunnen der Weisheit (the title given to the work on page xii). A depiction of the god Odin drinking from the well of wisdom.
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