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  2. Odin - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Death in Norse paganism - Wikipedia

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    After the funeral, the individual could go to a range of afterlives including Valhalla (a hall ruled by Odin for the warrior elite who die in battle), Fólkvangr (ruled over by Freyja), Hel (a realm for those who die of natural causes), and living on physically in the landscape. These afterlives show blurred boundaries and exist alongside a ...

  4. Death or departure of the gods - Wikipedia

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    Odin's last words to Baldr (1908) by W.G. Collingwood (1854–1932). A dying god, or departure of the gods, is a motif in mythology in which one or more gods (of a pantheon) die, are destroyed, or depart permanently from their place on Earth to elsewhere.

  5. Old Norse religion - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Valhalla - Wikipedia

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    Odin, throughout this story is seen to have pet ravens that he sends out, and the warriors of his hall are dead men and ghosts who endlessly fight battles and endlessly die. There are also women who feed them and serve them alcohol and are the same spirits who chose them to die in the battles they fight.

  7. Frigg - Wikipedia

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    Later in the poem, when the future death of Odin is foretold, Odin is referred to as the "beloved of Frigg" and his future death is referred to as the "second grief of Frigg". [19] Like the reference to Frigg weeping in Fensalir earlier in the poem, the implied "first grief" is a reference to the grief she felt upon the death of her son, Baldr .

  8. Celebrities Who Died Broke (or Close to It) - AOL

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    He died of a heart attack in an Egyptian hospital at age 83 in 2010. Wikimedia Commons. Billie Holiday. ... He was serving a life sentence in prison — for the murder of Odin Lloyd, a semi ...

  9. Threefold death - Wikipedia

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    The Norse god Odin is also associated with the threefold death. [1] Human sacrifices to Odin were hanged from trees. Odin is said to have hanged himself and while falling, impaled himself on his spear Gungnir in order to learn the secrets of the runes.