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Bookmark or Share- Odin - The Rune-Gild EuropeOdin (in Old Norse Óðinn, Old English and Old Saxon Woden, Old High German Wuotan, Wotan or Wodan, Proto-Germanic *Woðanaz, ‘Master of Ecstasy’) is a complicated god who combines many contradictory qualities.
- Odin - Norse Mythology for Smart PeopleOdin (pronounced “OH-din”; Old Norse Óðinn, Old English and Old Saxon Woden, Old High German Wuotan, Wotan, or Wodan, Proto-Germanic *Woðanaz, “Master of Ecstasy”) is one of the most complex and enigmatic characters in Norse mythology, and perhaps in all of world literature.
- Odin - World History EncyclopediaHe also exists in Germanic mythology as Woden (in Old English), Wodan (in Old Franconian), and Wutan or Wuotan (in Old High German). The modern English weekday name Wednesday traces its origins to "day of Woden", wōdnesdæg in Old English, and is still seen in the Dutch name woensdag.
- Odin - WikipediaIn his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner refers to the god as Wotan, a spelling of his own invention which combines the Old High German Wuotan with the Low German Wodan. [20]
- Odin | Myth & History | BritannicaOdin—also called Wodan, Woden, or Wotan—is one of the principal gods in Norse mythology. His exact nature and role, however, are difficult to determine because of the complex picture of him given by a wealth of archaeological and literary sources.
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