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Odin (Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlemen ...
Óðinn) is a widely attested god in Germanic mythology
Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples, including Norse mythology, Anglo-Saxon mythology, and Continental Germanic mythology. It was a key element of Germanic paganism.
Origins
As the Germanic langu ...
. The god is referred to by numerous names and kenning
A kenning ( Icelandic: ) is a figure of speech in the type of circumlocution, a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun. Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English ...
ar, particularly in the Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlemen ...
record.
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InOld English
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, Odin was known as ; in Old Saxon
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, as ; and in Old High German
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There is no standardised or supra-regional form of German at this period, and Old High ...
, as or .
See also
*List of names of Thor
The Germanic god Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) is referred to by many names in Old Norse poetry and literature. Some of the names come from the ''Prose Edda'' list ''Nafnaþulur'', and are not attested elsewhere, while other names are well attested th ...
*List of names of Freyr
The Germanic god Freyr is referred to by many names in Old Norse poetry and literature. Multiple of these are attested only once in the extant record and are found principally in Skáldskaparmál. Some names have been further proposed by scholar ...
*List of kennings
A kenning (Old English , Modern Icelandic ) is a circumlocution, an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech, used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English, and later Icelandic poetry.
This list is not intended to be comprehensiv ...
* Mercurius Cimbrianus
*Names of God in Old English poetry In Old English poetry, many descriptive epithets for God were used to satisfy alliterative requirements. These epithets include:
List
See also
* Name of God in Christianity
*Wuldor
*List of kennings
* List of names of Odin
* List of names of ...
* Godan and Wodan
Notes
Further reading
*External links
MyNDIR (My Norse Digital Image Repository)
Illustrations of Bǫlverkr from manuscripts and early print books. Clicking on the thumbnail will give you the full image and information concerning it. {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Names Of Odin Odin, names of