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Widely revered deity in Germanic mythology

This article is about the Germanic deity.

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For other uses, see Odin (disambiguation).

"Woden" redirects here. For other uses, see Woden (disambiguation).

Odin (;^[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 depicts him as the husband of the goddess Frigg.

In wider Germanic mythology and paganism, the god was also known in Old English as Wōden, in Old Saxon as Uuôden, in Old Dutch as Wuodan, in Old Frisian as Wêda, and in Old High German as Wuotan, all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanictheonym *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 Symbolism of Odin’s Spear: Gungnir - Norse Mythology DUWEN