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