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Well of Wisdom

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This was the well under the protection of the god Mimir (q.v.). Odin, by drinking thereof, became the wisest of all beings. (Scandinavian mythology.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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