 To the Germanic peoples, Odin was often associated with ravens.Examples include depictions of figures often identified as Odin appear flanked with two birds on a 6th-century bracteate and on a 7th-century helmet plate from Vendel, Sweden.In later Norse mythology, Odin is depicted as having two ravens Huginn and Muninn serving as his eyes and ears – "huginn" meaning "thought" and "muninn" meaning "memory".