<P> The woman wakes, sits up, looks at Sigurd, and the two converse in two stanzas of verse . In the second stanza, the woman explains that Odin placed a sleeping spell on her which she could not break, and due to that spell she has been asleep a long time . Sigurd asks for her name, and the woman gives Sigurd a horn of mead to help him retain her words in his memory . The woman recites a heathen prayer in two stanzas . A prose narrative explains that the woman is named Sigrdrífa and that she is a valkyrie . </P> <P> A narrative relates that Sigrdrífa explains to Sigurd that there were two kings fighting one another . Odin had promised one of these--Hjalmgunnar--victory in battle, yet she had "brought down" Hjalmgunnar in battle . Odin pricked her with a sleeping - thorn in consequence, told her that she would never again "fight victoriously in battle", and condemned her to marriage . In response, Sigrdrífa told Odin she had sworn a great oath that she would never wed a man who knew fear . Sigurd asks Sigrdrífa to share with him her wisdom of all worlds . The poem continues in verse, where Sigrdrífa provides Sigurd with knowledge in inscribing runes, mystic wisdom, and prophecy . </P> <P> Odin is mentioned throughout the books of the Prose Edda, authored by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century and drawing from earlier traditional material . In the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning (chapter 38), the enthroned figure of High (Harr), tells Gangleri (king Gylfi in disguise) that two ravens named Huginn and Muninn sit on Odin's shoulders . The ravens tell Odin everything they see and hear . Odin sends Huginn and Muninn out at dawn, and the birds fly all over the world before returning at dinner - time . As a result, Odin is kept informed of many events . High adds that it is from this association that Odin is referred to as "raven - god". The above - mentioned stanza from Grímnismál is then quoted . </P> <P> In the same chapter, the enthroned figure of High explains that Odin gives all of the food on his table to his wolves Geri and Freki and that Odin requires no food, for wine is to him both meat and drink . </P>

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