< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
BRAGI, in Scandinavian mythology, the son of Odin, and god of wisdom, poetry and eloquence. At the Scandinavian sacrificial feasts a horn consecrated to Bragi was used as a drinking cup by the guests, who then vowed to do some great deed which would be worthy of being immortalized in verse.
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