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Bookmark or Share- Odin | Myth & History | BritannicaOdin—also called Wodan, Woden, or Wotan—is one of the principal gods in Norse mythology. His exact nature and role, however, are difficult to determine because of the complex picture of him given by a wealth of archaeological and literary sources.
- Odin: The Shapeshifting Norse God of Wisdom | History CooperativeThe text refers to Odin as Wotan, which Adam of Bremen called the ‘furious one’. The twelfth-century historian describes the Uppsala Temple where Wotan, Frigg , and Thor were worshiped by the Pagans.
- Odin – MythopediaOdin was recognized and commonly referred to in other Germanic languages: he was known as Wōden in Old English, Wōdan in Old Saxon, and as Wuotan and Wotan in Old German. The god’s name also lent itself to the word “Wednesday,” meaning “ Wōden’s day.”
- Odin - Norse Mythology for Smart PeopleOdin (pronounced “OH-din”; Old Norse Óðinn, Old English and Old Saxon Woden, Old High German Wuotan, Wotan, or Wodan, Proto-Germanic *Woðanaz, “Master of Ecstasy”) is one of the most complex and enigmatic characters in Norse mythology, and perhaps in all of world literature.
- Wotan - Wiktionary, the free dictionaryWotan m ( proper noun, strong, genitive Wotans) Woden / Odin, a deity of the old Germanic religion, and of modern German reconstructions of this religion. a male given name from the Germanic languages.
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