![]() According to the Prose Edda, whoever drinks it becomes a skald or scholar. In Norse Viking mythology the mead of poetry is a symbol of wisdom and poetical inspiration. The two dwarves killed him, mixed his blood with honey and poured the beverage into Óðrœrir, Boðn and Són. There were no questions Kvasir could not answer. ![]() ![]() ![]() These three horns contained the mead since the time when the dwarves Fjalar and Galar killed a wise man called Kvasir created from the spittle of Æsir and Vanir. The horns’ names were Óðrœrir, Boðn and Són. Since the three horns he drank contained the whole of the mead, Odin thus got all of it and fled in the shape of an eagle. However, with each sip he drank a whole horn. The Horn Triskelion symbolizes Odin: to obtain the mead of poetry (skáldskaparmjöðr) he bargained three nights with the giantess Gunnlöð for three sips of the mead. Translated from Greek the word triskelion means ‘three-legged’. A triskelion (or triskele) is a symbol with threefold rotational symmetry (such symmetry means that a figure, which has it, looks the same after a certain amount of rotation). It seems to be closely related the Valknut and Triquetra and is often referred to as the Horn Triskelion. Three interlocked drinking horns is an important Norse Viking symbol. ![]()
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