Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Odin"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Odin \O"din\, n. [Icel. ?; prob.akin to E. wood, a. See
{Wednesday}.] (Northern Myth.)
The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as
{Woden}, of the German tribes.
There in the Temple, carved in wood, The image of great
Odin stood. --Longfellow.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Odin
n : (Norse mythology) ruler of the Aesir; supreme god of war and
poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an
eye) and husband of Frigg; identified with the Teutonic
Wotan [syn: {Odin}]
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