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Wóden

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
Wóden, es; m.
Woden, one of the Teutonic deities. Among the Roman gods Mercury seems to have been thought most nearly to correspond, and Wóden is rendered by Mercurius, e. g.
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  • Wóden

    Mercurium,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 114, 4.

  • Cf. Saga mé hwá ǽrost bócstafas sette. Ic ðé secge, Mercurius se gygand,

    • Salm. Kmbl. p. 192, 7
      • :
    • 200, 24.
  • The name is of rare occurrence in the literature

    Wóden worhte weós, wuldor alwalda rúme roderas,

    • Exon. Th. 341, 28
      • ;
    • Gn. Ex. 133.

  • Wyrm com snícan, tóslát hé man ; ðá genam Woden viiii. wuldortánas, slóh ðá ða næddran, ðæt heó on viiii tófleáh,

      Lchdm. iii. 34, 23.
¶ Woden is found in most of the genealogies of the old English royal families
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  • Ðæs (Wihta) fæder wæs Wóden nemned, of ðæs strýnde monigra mǽgþa cyningcynn fruman lǽdde,

    • Bd. I. 15
      • ;
    • S. 483, 30.

  • Fram ðan Wódne áwóc eall úre cynecynn, and Súðan-Hymbra eác.

    • Chr. 449
      • ;
    • Erl. 13, 20
      • :
    • 547
      • ;
    • Erl. 16, 13
      • :
    • 560
      • ;
    • Erl. 16, 32
      • :
    • 855
      • ;
    • Erl. 70, 9.
  • See Grimm's Teutonic Mythology, Stallybrass's translation,
    • vol. i. p. 163
      • ,
    • vol. iv. pp. 1709 sqq.
¶ the word is found in place-names, e. g.
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  • Wódnes beorg, Wodnes den, Wódnes díc,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 355.
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      See also Wódnes-dæg.
Etymology
[
We (the Saxons) habbeð godes gode . . . þe þridde næhte Woden . . . Woden hende þa næhste laȝe,
    Laym. 13897-13921.
O. L. Ger. Wódan
:
O. H. Ger. Wuotan
:
Icel. Óðinn.
]
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v. Óðen.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “Wóden.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/36383.

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