He learns all of the world's news each day  from his ravens Huginn and Muninn.
Nine slaves cut each other's throats in an effort to obtain this figure's whetstone. He was sometimes called Herion  when he led the wild hunt, and his main objective during the hunt was to kill a skogsra. In one story, he visits a  king named Geirrod while disguised as the island farmer Grimnir, only to be tortured between two fires. In another  story he appears as the ferryman Harbard, who insults this god's son by Fjorgyn or Jord, and in the Volsung Saga he  places a sword in the Barnstokk while disguised as a tall, one-eyed man. He learns all of the world's news each day  from his ravens Huginn and Muninn. For 10 points, name this father of Thor.
Nine slaves cut each other's throats in an effort to obtain this figure's whetstone.
{Odin} [or {Wodan}, {Wotan}, {Ygg}]