The Name 'Odin' Over Time

#shorts #linguistics #Odin #oldnorse #norsemythology #runes

[jkl]

Makes sense that Anglo Saxons refer to him as Woden. Since they originally lived in the Jutland region.

[faramund]

(Sharing an experience here)

I had this crazy thing last Wednesday.
I was walking around and suddenly I see WOTAN on the wall.
I thought to myself about Wodnas Werjan, and realized it should be a D, not a T.
Anyways, I move along the same road past some jackdaws and magpies and sit down on a bench to listen to Rhetoric by Aristotle for a while. I get up, I turn around and see the building behind me has WALRAVEN on it.
What a wonderful Wednesday it was.

[Svensk]

The possessive form! That must be the form for he was given the middle day of the week!
Wednesday. Though we pronounce it When's Day, it must have been pronounced Wed-nes Day, perhaps Wed-ens, but Wed-nes seems to equal the example he mentioned, "Wođ-nas"!

[overworlder]

First one is close to Woden. Which is a place name in my city.

[letsunnahgoforth]

In the show Barbarians Thusnelda from the Germanic cheruski tribe refers to Odin as woden similar to wothnar

[caniblmolstr]

The House of Wessex initially claimed to be descended from Odin. The House founder Cerdic (probably an orphan) cloned he was the son of Odin.

Same as the house of Sigurd (Ragnar and Cnut the Great's house)

Though the Ynglings, the house of Harald Fairhai and Hardrada claimed they were descendants of Yngvi (Freyr)

[darusus]

isn't Wodan also the name the pre christian germans called Odin?

[robotlegs]

Very cool! How would you write the non-possessive version of the proto-germanic Wothnas?

[rhiangriffin]

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