In
Germanic mythology,
Odin (from
Old Norse Óðinn) is a widely revered god. In
Norse mythology, from which stems most of our information about the god, Odin is associated with healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, battle, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and is the husband of the goddess
Frigg. In wider Germanic mythology and
paganism, Odin was known in
Old English as
Woden, in
Old Saxon as
Wodan, and in
Old High German as
Wuotan or
Wotan, all stemming from the reconstructed
Proto-Germanic theonym
*wodanaz.
