In
Norse mythology,
Óðr (
Old Norse for the "Divine Madness, frantic, furious, vehement, eager", as a noun "mind, feeling" and also "song, poetry"; Orchard (1997) gives "the frenzied one") or
Óð, sometimes angliziced as
Odr or
Od, is a figure associated with the major goddess
Freyja. The
Prose Edda and
Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by
Snorri Sturluson, both describe Óðr as Freyja's husband and father of her daughter
Hnoss.
Heimskringla adds that the couple produced another daughter,
Gersemi. A number of theories have been proposed about Óðr, generally that he is somehow a
hypostasis of the deity
Odin due to their similarities.