Manse Everard of the Time Patrol, posing as a first century Goth, has to acknowledge that he is familiar with violence:
"'Whoever calls me coward will feed the ravens before nightfall.'" (p. 506)
Ravens eat corpses. In Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: The Kindly Ones, ravens, including Noah's, gather in the Dreaming because they know that the Furies are about to attack that realm - so there will be fine dining for ravens.
The title character of The Sandman owns one raven whereas Odin - a character both in The Sandman and in Poul Anderson's heroic fantasies - owns two. Sometimes everything connects. Or seems to. But that really is as far as we go tonight.
Tomorrow, gym and Zen.
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Huginn and Muninn are the names of Odin's ravens -- but the names mean "Thought" (or possibly "mind") and "memory". They sweep around the world and carry tales to Odin -- obviously symbolic of his thought and memory encompassing the world.
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