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The True Meaning of Odin's Name (Odin Wotan Woden Wodan)

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Scott T. Shell (Germanic Beliefs and Religion)

In this video, I discuss Odin's name in PGmc *wōðanaz and its various forms throughout the Germanic languages.

0:45 Wōðanaz (ProtoGermanic)
2:58 Wōdans (Gothic)
3:50 Uuôden (Old Saxon)
5:08 Woden/Wœden (Old English)
5:51 Óðinn/Óðann (Old Norse)
7:54 Wuotan (Old High German)

The argument for Óðinn/*Óðann is from Liberman's In Prayer and Laughter. Essays on Medieval Scandinavian and Germanic Mythology, Literature, and Culture (2016).

Books:

Kershaw's The Oneeyed God: Odin and the (Indo) Germanic Männerbünde:

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