Woden vs. Odin — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Woden and Odin
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Woden
An Anglo-Saxon god corresponding to the Norse god Odin.
Odin
Odin (; from Old Norse: Óðinn, IPA: [ˈoːðenː]) is a widely revered god in Germanic mythology. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates Odin 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.
Woden
A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.
Odin
The supreme god and creator, god of victory and the dead. Wednesday is named after him.
Woden
Chief god; counterpart of Norse Odin and Teutonic Wotan
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Odin
The god of wisdom, war, art, culture, and the dead, and the supreme deity and creator of the cosmos and humans.
Odin
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.
Odin
(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
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