Woden

Wōden

... Woden or Wodan (Old English Ƿōden, Old High German Wôdan, Old Saxon Uuôden) is a major deity of Anglo-Saxon and Continental Germanic polytheism ... Together with his Norse counterpart Odin, Woden represents a development of the Proto-Germanic god *Wōdanaz ... religion of Anglo-Saxon and continental Germanic peoples than is known about Norse paganism, Woden is attested in English, German, and Dutch toponyms as well as ...

Famous quotes containing the word woden:

    “There are knives that glitter like altars
    In a dark church
    Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
    To be healed.

    There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
    Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed”
    —Charles Simic (b. 1938)