Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum is a historical treatise written between 1073 and 1076 by Adam of Bremen, who made additions to the text until his death. It is one of the most important sour
Beginning of Book 1 in the Vienna manuscript (Codex Vindobonensis 521, fol. 3r).
First page of the descriptio insularum aquilonis in the Vienna manuscript (Codex Vindobonensis 521, fol. 69v).
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Odin is a widely revered god in Norse mythology and Germanic paganism. Most surviving information on Odin comes from Norse mythology, but he figures prominently in the recorded history of Northern Eur
Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum
…in gold, the people worship the statues of three gods in such wise that the mightiest of them, Thor, occupies a throne in the middle of the chamber; Wodan and Frikko have places on either side. (…) Thor, they say, presides over the air, which governs the thunder and lightning, the winds and rains, fair…
Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, as imagined by Georg von Rosen (1886)
Woðinz (read from right to left), a probably authentic attestation of a pre-Viking Age form of Odin, on the Strängnäs stone
One of the Torslunda plates. The figure to the left was cast with both eyes, but afterwards the right eye was removed.
The name Wōđnas on a bracteate from the early 5th century AD, written as mirrored text