Symbols of Wisdom, Fate, and the All-Seeing Mind Crows in Norse mythology are central, few creatures carry as much symbolic weight as the crow and its close corvid relatives. Far from being mere birds, crows represent thought, memory, fate, war, and divine knowledge . To the Norse worldview, the crow was a creature that moved freely between worlds—watching, listening, and remembering. At the centre of this symbolism stands Odin , the Allfather, whose connection to crows and r