An actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression.
1Another is resigned, a perfect mimer, but stupid.
2Then Mimer stepped up to the armor and touched it with his foot.
3It is this wisdom that Mimer keeps in his fountain.-NorseMythology, p 209.
4Mimer's friends, and the great king, too, joined in the applause.
5One day Mimer came into the shop and sat down beside Siegfried's anvil.
6But Mimer's friends waited in breathless silence, hoping, and yet fearing.
7He had not sought it for himself, but for Mimer's sake.
8Then Regin laughed, and asked, How long art thou to be Mimer's thrall?
9As the stream bore the bundle downwards, Mimer held the sword in its way.
10On the eighth day the sword was fashioned, and Siegfried brought it to Mimer.
11The other pupils laughed in scorn, but Mimer checked them.
12The boys all hung their heads, for they knew not how to help Mimer.
13Mimer was a dwarf, belonging to a strange race of little folk called Nibelungs.
14One, two, three times the sword flashed about Mimer's head.
15I have come for charcoal for my master Mimer's forges.
16Concerning the Mimer of the Eddas, Professor Anderson says, The name Mimer means the knowing.