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ICGV Óðinn
ICGV ''Óðinn'' is a decommissioned offshore patrol vessel formerly operated by the Icelandic Coast Guard. She is the oldest ship in the coastguard's fleet, and it is believed that her Burmeister & Wain engines are the only such engines that are still serviceable in the world today. Since her withdrawal from active duty, she has served as a floating exhibit at the Reykjavík Maritime Museum in Reykjavík Harbour. The ship is still maintained, and operative as of June 2022. Service On 23 October 1963, ''Óðinn'' went to the aid of the British trawler ''Northern Spray'', which had run aground off the coast of Iceland, and with the trawler ''James Barrie'', rescued ''Northern Spray''s crew and attempted unsuccessfully to refloat the stranded trawler. The Cod Wars On 30 April 1976, during the cod wars, she was rammed in the stern by the British sidewinder trawler ''Arctic Corsair'', after ''Óðinn'' had made three attempts to cut the trawl warps. In 2017, with both vessels mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odinn
Odin (; from non, Óðinn, ) is a widely revered Æsir, 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 Runes, runic alphabet, and depicts him as the husband of the goddess Frigg. In wider Germanic mythology and paganism, the god was also known in Old English as ', in Old Saxon as , in Old Dutch as ''Wuodan'', in Old Frisian as ''Wêda'', and in Old High German as , all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic theonym *''Wōðanaz'', meaning 'lord of frenzy', or 'leader of the possessed'. Odin appears as a prominent god throughout the recorded history of Northern Europe, from the Roman occupation of regions of Germania (from BCE) through movement of peoples during the Migration Period (4th to 6th centuries CE) and the Viking Age (8th to 11th centuries CE). In the modern pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
