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