The children of Odin - Germanic Mythology

THE DWELLERS IN.ASGARD 75
Looking into their eyes, Odin saw the shadows and forebodings
that Hugin and Munin told him of take shape and substance.
And now others came across the Rainbow Bridge. They were
Frigga and Sif and Naima, the wives of Odin and Thor and
Baldur. Frigga looked upon the Norns. As she did, she turned
a glance of love and sadness upon Baldur, her son, and then she
drew back and placed her hand upon Nanna's head.
Odin turned from gazing on the Norns, and looked upon Frigga,
his queenly wife. "I would leave Asgard for a while, wife of
Odin," he said.
"Yea," said Frigga. "Much has to be done in Midgard, the
World of Men."
"I would change what knowledge I have into wisdom," said
Odin, "so that the things that are to happen will be changed into
the best that may be."
"You would go to Mimir's Well," said Frigga.
"I would go to Mimir's Well," said Odin.
"My husband, go," said Frigga.
Then they went back over that Rainbow Bridge that is more
beautiful and more tremulous than the one that men see from
the earth ; they went back over the Rainbow Bridge, the ^Esir
and the As3miur, Odin and Frigga, Baldur and Nanna, Tyr,
with his sword, and Sif beside Tyr. As for Thor, he went
struggling through the Cloud Rivers Kormt and Ermt, his
hammer Miolnir upon his shoulder.
Little Hnossa, the youngest of the Dwellers in Asgard, was