Viking Odin's horn Triskele

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ODIN’S HORN also known as THE HORN TRISKELE

 

Odin’s horn combines the aspiration for wisdom and creativity with the the belief that things happen in threes and life is a constant forwards journey.

 

 

The three interlocked drinking horns is an important Norse Viking symbol. It seems to be closely related the Valknut and Celtic Triskele and is often referred to as the Horn Triskelion. A triskelion (or triskele) is a symbol with threefold rotational symmetry. Translated from Greek, the word triskelion means ‘three-legged’.

 

 

The Horn Triskelion symbolizes Odin and derives from a particular Viking legend. In order to obtain the mead of poetry (skáldskaparmjöðr) Odin bargained three nights with the giantess Gunnlöð for three sips of the mead. However, with each sip he drank a whole horn. 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.

 

The horns’ names were Óðrœrir, Boðn and Són. These three horns contained the mead since the time when the dwarves Fjalar and Galar killed a wise man called Kvasir. There were no questions Kvasir could not answer. The two dwarves killed him, mixed his blood with honey and poured the beverage into Óðrœrir, Boðn and Són. In Norse Viking mythology the mead of poetry is a symbol of wisdom and artistic inspiration. According to the Prose Edda, whoever drinks it becomes a skald or scholar.

 

Odin’s horn meanings:

 

Wisdom and Learning.

 

Now and Forever

 

This World and the Next