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Odensvi – Odin's Sanctuary, [11] a place name appearing in Västmanland, Närke & Småland. Odinslund, [ 4 ] modern toponym Onsjö, [ 12 ] Odensjö & Odensjön – Odin Lake / The Odin Lake , several places in southern Sweden
"Odin Rides to Hel" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. Hel (Old Norse: ) is an afterlife location in Norse mythology and paganism.It is ruled over by a being of the same name, Hel.In late Icelandic sources, varying descriptions of Hel are given and various figures are described as being buried with items that will facilitate their journey to Hel after their death [citation needed].
Valhalla is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, in the Prose Edda (written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson), in Heimskringla (also written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson), and in stanzas of an anonymous 10th-century poem commemorating the death of Eric Bloodaxe known as Eiríksmál as compiled in Fagrskinna.
In Grímnismál, Odin and Frigg are both sitting in Hliðskjálf when they see their foster sons Agnarr and Geirröðr, one living in a cave with a giantess and the other a king. Frigg then made the accusation to her husband that Geirröðr was miserly and inhospitable toward guests, so after wagering with one another over the veracity of the ...
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 ...
After Asgard is made, the gods then built a hof named Glaðsheimr at Iðavöllr, in the centre of the burg, or walled city, with a high seat for Odin and twelve seats for other gods. [10] It is described as like gold both on the inside and the outside, and as the best of all buildings in the world. [15]
In Norse mythology, Glaðsheimr (Old Norse "bright home" [1]) is a realm in Asgard where Odin's hall of Valhalla is located according to Grímnismál.. Snorri states in Gylfaginning that Glaðsheimr is a meeting hall containing thirteen high seats [2] where the male Æsir hold council, located in Iðavöllr in Asgard, near the hall of Vingólf where the Ásynjur goddesses gathered.
In Norse mythology, Valaskjálf ("the Shelf of the Slain" [1]) is one of Odin's Halls, a great dwelling built and roofed with pure silver. In this room is a high seat, Hliðskjálf, where Odin can watch over the entire universe.