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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.
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 ...
The image has been thought to depict Odin with his horse Sleipnir and his spear Gungnir with Huginn and Muninn flowing 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.
When transcribing Old Norse texts from Danish and Swedish runestones, many scholars, [8] but not all, [9] use an orthography that is adapted to represent Old East Norse, the dialect of Old Norse in Denmark and Sweden. The main differences are the diphthong æi instead of ei as in stæinn ("stone") and i instead of the glide j as in giald ...
Since Old Norse is written in the Latin alphabet no transliteration is necessary and the standardized spelling can be used - though we propose one minor modification. In its most original form the standardized Old Norse spelling uses the o-ogonek character (ǫ). For technical reasons it is commonly replaced, even in scholarly discourse, with ...
In Norse mythology, Valhalla (/ v æ l ˈ h æ l ə / val-HAL-ə, US also / v ɑː l ˈ h ɑː l ə / vahl-HAH-lə; [1] Old Norse: Valhǫll [ˈwɑlhɒlː], lit. ' Hall of the Slain ') [2] is described as a majestic hall located in Asgard and presided over by the god Odin. There were five possible realms the soul could travel to after death.
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Sága pours Odin a drink in an illustration (1893) by Jenny Nyström.. In Norse mythology, Sága (Old Norse pronunciation:, possibly meaning "seeress" [1]) is a goddess associated with the location Sökkvabekkr (Old Norse: [ˈsøkːwɑˌbekːz̠]; "sunken bank", "sunken bench", or "treasure bank" [2]).