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18th-century Icelandic manuscript illustration of the giant Baugi drilling into a mountain while Odin watches.

Odin and Baugi in NKS 1867 4to — The jötunn Baugi bores through the mountain with a drill while Odin looks on, from an Icelandic 1760 manuscript of the Prose Edda. Art: Ólafur Brynjúlfsson. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

18th-century Icelandic manuscript illustration of Baugi using the auger Rati to drill into Hnitbjörg for Odin.

Baugi and Odin in SÁM 66 — Baugi uses the auger Rati to drill into Hnitbjörg so Odin can reach the mead of poetry, from an Icelandic 1765–66 manuscript. Art: Jakob Sigurðsson. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

18th-century Icelandic manuscript illustration of Odin in eagle form carrying away the mead of poetry.

Odin steals the Mead of Poetry — The climax of the tale Baugi made possible: Odin in eagle form escapes with the mead from Suttungr, from the SÁM 66 manuscript (c. 1765–66). Art: Jakob Sigurðsson. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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