![]() ![]() In wider Germanic mythology and paganism, the god was known in Old English as Wōden, in Old Saxon as Wōdan, in Old Dutch as Wuodan, and in Old High German as Wuotan, all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym * Wōđanaz, meaning 'lord of frenzy', or 'leader of the possessed'. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, generally portrays Odin as king of the gods and associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and depicts him as the husband of the goddess Frigg. ![]() ![]() ![]() Odin ( / ˈ oʊ d ɪ n/ from Old Norse: Óðinn, IPA: ) is a widely revered god in Germanic mythology. Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, by Georg von Rosen (1886)
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