Rati

"Traveler", "Madman." The name of the auger which Bölverkr gave to Baugi, bidding him to drill a hole through the rock into Hnitbjörg, the room where the mead of poetry was being kept. In Hávamál it appears that Odin used the auger himself:

"Rati's mouth I caused

to make a space,

and to gnaw the rock;

over and under me

were the Jötun's ways:

thus I my head did peril."

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