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- Translated transcription: Out on the high seas the ravens soon become indispensable to the Vikings. The men believe that they can predict the weather, have warning of battles and victories from the birds’ flight.
In the evening when everyone is resting, Vébjörg goes to the ship’s edge and feeds Óðinn’s birds from her own hands. Sometimes they will let her stroke their blue-black backs. At times she will talk to them, asking them about the future, and believes she can read the answer in their eyes, which appear to reflect the entire world and all of time.
She asks them about life in Valhöll, if it is not true that Óðinn is Alfaðir and the mightiest of all gods, if all of the other Æsir together do not obey him. It sometimes happens that the birds answer her with a few strange, deep croaks, which Vébjörg thinks she can interpret.
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