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*from old norse Óðinn*
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*in ‘germanic mythology’, odin is a widely revered ‘god’*
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(in ‘norse mythology’ (from which stems most of our information about the ‘god’), ‘odin’ is associated with ‘healing’, ‘death’, ‘royalty’, ‘the gallows’, ‘knowledge’, ‘battle’, ‘sorcery’, ‘poetry’, ‘frenzy’, and the ‘runic alphabet’, and is the husband of the goddess ‘frigg’)
(in wider germanic ‘mythology’ and ‘paganism’, ‘odin’ was known in ‘old english’ as wōden, in ‘old saxon’ as wōdan, and in ‘old high german’ as wuotan or wōtan, all stemming from the reconstructed ‘proto-germanic’ theonym *wōđanaz)
(‘odin’ is a prominently mentioned ‘god’ throughout the recorded history of the ‘germanic peoples’, from the ‘roman occupation’ of regions of ‘germania’ through the tribal expansions of the ‘migration period’ and the ‘viking age’)
(in the ‘modern period’, ‘odin’ continued to be acknowledged in the rural folklore of ‘germanic europe’)
(references to ‘odin’ appear in ‘place names’ throughout regions historically inhabited by the ‘ancient germanic peoples’, and the day of the week ‘wednesday’ bears his name in many ‘germanic languages’, including ‘english’)
(in ‘anglo-saxon england’, ‘odin’ held a particular place as a ‘euhemerized ancestral figure’ among ‘royalty’, and he is frequently referred to as a ‘founding figure’ among various other ‘germanic peoples’, including the ‘langobards’ and in most of ‘scandinavia’)
(forms of his name appear frequently throughout the ‘germanic record’, though narratives regarding ‘odin’ are primarily found in ‘old norse’ works recorded in ‘iceland’ (primarily around the ’13th century’), texts which make up the bulk of modern understanding of ‘norse mythology’)
(in ‘old norse’ texts, ‘odin’ is depicted as ‘1-eyed’ and ‘long-bearded’, frequently wielding a spear named ‘gungnir’, and wearing a ‘cloak’ and a ‘broad hat’)
(he is often accompanied by his ‘animal companions’—the wolves ‘geri’ and ‘freki’ and the ravens ‘huginn’ and ‘muninn’, who bring him information from all over ‘midgard’—and ‘odin’ rides the flying, 8-legged steed ‘sleipnir’ across the ‘sky’ and into the ‘underworld’)
(‘odin’ is attested as having many ‘sons’, most famously the god ‘baldr’ with ‘frigg’, and is known by hundreds of names)
(in these texts, ‘odin’ frequently seeks ‘knowledge’ in some manner and ‘in disguise’ (most famously by obtaining the ‘mead of poetry’), at times makes ‘wagers’ with his wife ‘frigg’ over the ‘outcome’ of ‘exploits’, and takes part in both the ‘creation’ of the ‘world’ by way of slaying the primordial being ‘ymir’ and the ‘gift of life’ to the first 2 humans (‘ask’ and ’embla’)…(‘A’ + ‘E’)…and so it goes…
(‘odin’ has a particular association with ‘yule’, and mankind’s knowledge of both the ‘runes’ and ‘poetry’ is also attributed to ‘odin’)
(in ‘old norse’ texts, ‘odin’ is given ‘primacy’ over ‘female beings’ associated with the ‘battlefield’ (the ‘valkyries’) and he himself oversees the afterlife location ‘valhalla’, where he receives half of those who die in battle (the ‘einherjar’))
(the other half are chosen by goddess ‘freyja’ for her afterlife location (‘fólkvangr’))
(‘odin’ consults the disembodied, herb-embalmed head of the wise being ‘mímir’ for advice, and during the foretold events of ‘ragnarök’, ‘odin’ is told to lead the ‘einherjar’ into battle before being consumed by the monstrous wolf ‘fenrir’)
(in later folklore, ‘odin’ appears as a leader of the ‘wild hunt’, a ‘ghostly procession’ of the dead through the ‘winter sky’)
(‘odin’ is also particularly associated with ‘charms’ and other forms of ‘magic’, such as in ‘old english’ and ‘old norse’ texts)
(‘odin’ has been a frequent subject of study in ‘germanic studies’ and numerous theories surround the ‘god’)
(some of these focus on odin’s particular relation to other figures, such as that freyja’s husband ‘óðr’ appears to be something of an ‘etymological doublet’ of the ‘god’, whereas odin’s wife ‘frigg’ is in many ways similar to ‘freyja’, and that ‘odin’ has a particular relation to the figure of ‘loki’)
(other approaches focus on odin’s place in the ‘historical record’, a frequent question being whether ‘odin’ is derived from ‘proto-indo-european’ religion, or whether he developed later in ‘germanic society’)
(in the ‘modern period’, ‘odin’ has inspired numerous works of ‘poetry’, ‘music’, and other ‘forms of media’)
(he is venerated in most forms of the new religious movement ‘heathenry’, together with other gods venerated by the ‘ancient germanic peoples’)
(some focus particularly on him)
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