Odin Goes To Mimir

Name-Chiagozie H Okeke
Course- Lit 217-A1
Instructor-Dr Odenwald
Date-06-24-15
Odin Goes to Mimir’s well (P.502)
This story literary illustrates how Odin, the all father and supreme among all gods and men, embarked to seek more wisdom with minding the cost or price to get the wisdom. He traveled several miles in other to obtain wisdom in life. At last it happened he visited certain well at Urd well because he knows the well has a lot of wisdom, and drinking from it will make him have the wisdom he needs. When he finally arrived at the well, he approached Mimir, the guardian of the well for a drink but instead Mimir told him there’s a price to pay and ask him if he was able to pay it before drinking from the well. He then accepted to the make
Odin responded ‘’I will not shrink from the price that has to be paid, Mimir,’’. When he made this statement, Mimir told him to drink and filled up a great horn with water from the well and gave it to Odin to drink. Then he took the horn with his both bands and drank it all. Therefore, it happened as he finished drinking the water, all the future became more clear, he started seeing sorrows and troubles that will fall upon men and God’s and also how the sorrows and troubles will borne to both Men and God’s and lot more. Finally, as he finished drinking from the great horn given to him by Mimir;, he put his hands in his right eye and plucked it out as he promised Mimir. He endured the pains, but never groaned or moan. He later bowed his head for a little rest, whereas the Mimir took the eye and allowed it to sinking deep, deep into the water of the well of wisdom. And
God created a man called Adam as he was the only man on earth and God seeing the beauty of mankind, took out a rib from his side to create a woman and called her Eve, reason because he doesn’t man to be alone. As the both walked in the Garden of Eden, God therefore, commanded then not to eat fruit in the middle of the Garden which was in the clear space by the stream, but the can eat from the other tree. But because of curiosity, Eve, got mislead by the serpent and ate the fruit from the tree and loved the taste. She then went to her husband and gave him to eat from the tree of good and evil. After which, the eyes opened and they noticed they were naked and became ashamed and when God visited the garden and called out there names, it happened they will hiding from the face of God, but later came out creeping out. God told them that they have made their choice and have chosen the path of death and banished then from the garden, he cursed the woman that she will feel pains in child birth, and the man he will suffer to get survival and banished then from the garden