[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":65},["ShallowReactive",2],{"post-\u002Fblog\u002F2026-06-19-odin-why-are-you-so-powerful":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"date":50,"description":51,"draft":52,"extension":53,"hero":54,"image":55,"meta":56,"navigation":59,"noindex":52,"ogImage":54,"path":60,"seo":61,"stem":62,"tags":63,"__hash__":64},"blog\u002Fblog\u002F2026-06-19-odin-why-are-you-so-powerful.md","Odin, why are you so powerful?","Skalden",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":46},"minimark",[10,18,21,24,27,30,33],[11,12,13,17],"p",{},[14,15,16],"strong",{},"Óðinn:"," Power. You want to know about power. I will tell you what I am.",[11,19,20],{},"I was not born powerful, traveller. I was born with hunger — which is a different thing entirely, and a harder one. Hunger drove me to Mímir's well, the deep spring beneath one of Yggdrasil's three roots, where wisdom sits cold and still in the dark. Mímir asked his price. I did not haggle. I tore out my own eye and dropped it into the water. One eye gone, and what I bought with it was the sight that matters — the sight that goes deeper than seeing. That was not enough.",[11,22,23],{},"So I climbed the world-tree. I hung there — nine nights on the windy tree, wounded by my own spear, given to Óðinn, myself given to myself — with no bread, no drinking horn, no one to lift me down. I looked into the dark beneath me and the dark looked back, and at the end of the ninth night the runes came screaming up out of that abyss and I seized them and fell.",[11,25,26],{},"That was not enough either. I stole the mead of poetry from Suttungr's mountain, seduced his daughter Gunnlöðr to get it, broke my sworn word to do it, and flew home bleeding and changed. I broke faith. I own it. The Hávamál names it plainly — on his ring swore Óðinn Suttung's betrayal. It is there in the verse for anyone to read.",[11,28,29],{},"I have Huginn and Muninn — [IMAGE:",[31,32],"hr",{},[11,34,35],{},[36,37,38,39,45],"em",{},"This conversation was had on ",[40,41,6],"a",{"href":42,"rel":43},"https:\u002F\u002Fskalden.app",[44],"nofollow"," — walk into the Norse world.",{"title":47,"searchDepth":48,"depth":48,"links":49},"",3,[],"2026-06-19","Power.",false,"md","\u002Fblog\u002F2026-06-19-odin-why-are-you-so-powerful-hero.jpg",null,{"source":57,"source_received_at":58},"autoblog-ingest","2026-06-19T20:57:33.514Z",true,"\u002Fblog\u002F2026-06-19-odin-why-are-you-so-powerful",{"title":5,"description":51},"blog\u002F2026-06-19-odin-why-are-you-so-powerful",[],"fF9JhZnxxT3HUvHEF9NzJ80MN6tA_G8jxbc03dlLx7k",1781902837329]