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- "Eagerly I accepted your sword, Njǫrðr of battle, and I will find no fault with it later. This is is my wish – it is a praiseworthy pursuit."
– Sigvatr Þórðarson
Hugins Drekka is an Exploration Age 
Unique Civic of the Icelandic civilization in Civilization VII.
Traditions:
- Effects:
- Naval Units can Pillage and Coastal Raid within 2 tiles.
- Mastery:
- Víkingr may Pillage and Coastal Raid for 1 Movement when in Distant Lands. Does not apply to Discoveries.
- Víkingr may Pillage and Coastal Raid for 1
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“Hugins drekka” (Huginn’s banquet) is a kenning, a figure of speech used extensively in Old Norse and Old English poetry in which a multi-word phrase replaces a single word. Kennings range from straightforward (“whale-road” for “ocean”) to complex (“the favorable wind of the moon-bear” for “thought”). They may be purely descriptive or rely on mythological knowledge to interpret. “Huginn’s banquet” falls in the latter category – Huginn is a raven companion of the god Óðinn, and ravens are considered “beasts of battle” (along with eagles and wolves) because they are carrion-eaters. Thus a raven’s banquet is a corpse.
Preserved throughout the literary corpus, poetry was a highly valued craft across the Norse world and exists in two branches, eddic and skaldic. Eddic poetry had fewer rules and was primarily used for mythological and legendary works; it is found almost exclusively in the collection now known as the Poetic Edda. Skaldic poetry was more demanding, requiring not only the mastery of complex metrical, rhyming, and lexical rules, but also thorough knowledge of the mythological and legendary corpus so that proper references could be made. Creativity was key – repetition was discouraged, and approximately 10,000 kennings, mostly unique, survive in the extant poetic corpus. Dróttkvætt (“court meter”) was the most popular and revered skaldic meter, particularly for praise poetry devoted to capturing the impressive deeds of kings and warriors. Iceland was well-known as a consistent source of talented skalds (poets), and they were often recruited by foreign kings as court poets.
Poetry also played an important role in legacy preservation throughout the Viking and Middle Ages. For a society that, during the pre-Christian era, believed in mortal gods and a world that would some day come to a conclusive fiery end, mortality was an accepted part of the human experience. Immortality was earned through the reputation forged during life, as explained in the eddic poem Hávamál: “Cattle die, kinsmen die, the self also dies. I know one thing that never dies: the reputation of each good man.” Poetry was a means to capture the accomplishments of the Norse, preserved for oral transmission so that a person’s memory could live on for generations to come. After the conversion to Christianity, the mythological and legendary references began to fade, and in the 13th century, the Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson produced a poetry manual designed to preserve the waning art for future generations. Now called the Prose Edda, it begins with a lengthy summary of the myths that were being forgotten, inadvertently becoming the most complete source for Norse mythology that has survived to the modern day.
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