The Norse God Heimdall Had an Ear for Music - Apparently.
Heimdall, the vigilant god of vigilance in Norse mythology, was said to have been born with a pair of gleaming silver ears that could hear sounds from afar. According to the Poetic Edda, a medieval Icelandic manuscript of Old Norse poetry, Heimdall's ears were so sensitive that he could hear the sound of the cows being milked on the other side of the nine worlds. This mythological detail has been extensively documented in various sources, including the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript.