Tuesday, March 2, 2021

The Names of Odin

A sample of the 215 different names, titles, and descriptors by which Odin is identified in surviving Norse manuscripts:

  • All-Father
  • Lord of Men
  • High One
  • Third
  • Blind
  • Riddle-Guesser
  • Greybeard
  • Old Man
  • Spear Lord
  • Spear Shaker
  • Spear Master
  • God of Chains
  • Battle Blind
  • Killer
  • Father of Armies
  • Battle-Glad
  • Terrible One
  • Whetstone of Courage
  • Inciter
  • Weaver
  • Victory-Bringer
  • Frenzy Gaper
  • Battle Screamer
  • Raver
  • Hanged One
  • Lord of the Hanged
  • Lord of Ghosts
  • Lord of Burial Mounds
  • Father of the Slain
  • Drooping moustache
  • Staff Wielder
  • Concealer
  • Wished For
  • Found

From Neil Price, The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (2019)

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