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“Listen! Who can hear the sound of grass growing? The sound of wool on a sheep’s back growing? Who needs less sleep than a bird? Who is so eagle-eyed that by day and by night, he can see the least movement a hundred leagues away? Heimdall and Heimdall and Heiradall.
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Glassman, R.M. (2017). The Class Structure of the Norse Tribes as Shown in “The Song of Rig”. In: The Origins of Democracy in Tribes, City-States and Nation-States. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51695-0_114
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