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Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, as imagined by Georg von Rosen (1886). Odin (/ ˈ oʊ d ɪ n /; [1] from Old Norse: Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and ...
Odin riding on his horse Sleipnir. Old Norse religion was polytheistic, with many anthropomorphic gods and goddesses, who express human emotions and in some cases are married and have children. [113] [114] One god, Baldr, is said in the myths to have died. Archaeological evidence on the worship of particular gods is sparse, although placenames ...
In the Early Medieval period, Odin was principally a god of the warrior elite, however, due to his close association with skalds, whose poetry was preserved in works such as the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, he is highly represented in extant sources on Nordic pre-Christian religion.
A centuries-old gold disc found in Denmark has revealed the earliest known mention of the Norse god Odin and shown he was being worshipped at least 150 years earlier than previously thought.
Odin the Wanderer (the meaning of his name Gangleri); illustration by Georg von Rosen, 1886 Odin ( Old Norse Óðinn) is a widely attested god in Germanic mythology . The god is referred to by numerous names and kenningar , particularly in the Old Norse record.
Another important part of the Poetic Edda is the Hávamál, [c] a poem on social conduct attributed to Odin, who was the god of war and wisdom and the leading deity in Norse mythology. [8] It is considered the most important source on Old Norse philosophy, [b] [d] and has been referred to as the "Nicomachean Ethics of the North". [4]
The image has been thought to depict Odin with his horse Sleipnir and his spear Gungnir with Huginn and Muninn flying above. In Norse mythology, Huginn and Muninn (roughly "mind and will" – see § Etymology) are a pair of ravens that serve under the god Odin and fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring information to the god Odin.
But Harbard is actually Odin in disguise and there is no clear reference here to a son of Odin. In Gylfaginning, Ali is only another name for Váli. The otherwise unrecorded Ítreksjóð, meaning "offspring of Ítrekr", may be a reference to any of the sons of Odin. Ít-rekr ("glorious ruler") is a name of Odin.