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Woden   Listen
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Woden  n.  (Northern Myth.) A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.






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"Woden" Quotes from Famous Books



... love, backed by her will, were not strong enough to make his life her own, she cared little what became of her, and could look with indifference on life itself. So far as she was concerned she thought herself ready to worship Woden or ...
— Esther • Henry Adams

... The "Hymn to Woden" alludes to Gray's "Fatal Sisters." "St. Michael's Mount" summons up the forms of the ancient Druids, and sings ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... before him, for he himself stands in no need of food. Mead is for him both food and drink. He invented the Runic characters, and it is the business of the Norns to engrave the runes of fate upon a metal shield. From Odin's name, spelt Woden, as it sometimes is, came Wednesday, the name of the fourth ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch



Words linked to "Woden" :   Anglo-Saxon deity, Wodan



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