Etymology

Muninn

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Today it means: One of a pair of ravens, the other being Huginn, who fly throughout the entire world and report any unusual events back to Odin. They are essentially Odin's messengers. Full definition →

Old Norse Muninn
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  1. Old Norse · derived fromMuninn“memory, mind”
  2. English todayMuninn

From Old Norse Muninn (“memory, mind”), from munr, from Proto-Germanic *muniz, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“mind”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.