In the Scandinavian mythology the chief god was Odin, the Woden, Wotan, or Wuotan of the Germans.
We see Votan, a hero in America, become the god Odin or Woden in Scandinavia; and when his worship as a god dies out Odin survives (as Dr.
Tho tha lesta kêm er en hloth månniska mith forande twa hondred êlephanta thvsend kêmlun tolêden mith woden balkum, râpum ånd allerlêja ark vmbe vsa flâte nêi tha Middelsê to tyande.
Thi alle send vnder-et weld thêra Golum, hjara wêpne send woden boga ånd spryta mith pintum fon herthis-hornum âk fon flintum.
He is Odin in Old Norse, Woden in Old English, and Wotan or Wuotan on the continent.
Woden is the Old English form.
Odin, Woden, and Wotan are cognates of Wōðanaz.
Wednesday is Old English Wōdnesdæg, “Woden’s day.”
Ignatius Donnelly opened his 1882 chapter “The God Odin, Woden, or Wotan” in Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by stating the Germanic identity, then moving into Olympus and Atlantis:
In the Scandinavian mythology the chief god was Odin, the Woden, Wotan, or Wuotan of the Germans.
Odin is the Woden, Wotan, or Wuotan of the Germans.
Germanic Odin, Woden, and Wotan are the same chief god.
Wotan, Woden, and Odin are dialect or cognate names of the same chief god, from reconstructed Wōðanaz.
What does Woden mean?Woden is the Old English form of the same god.
English Wednesday, Old English Wōdnesdæg, is “Woden’s day.”
Proto-Germanic ansuz and Sanskrit ásura sit on the same name bridge already mapped on this site toward Odin / Woden / Wotan.
That Aessir frame soft-bridges the Norse Aesir trail on the god Odin, Woden, or Wotan.
the god Odin, Woden, or Wotan holds the Aesir / Enlil–air-god name bridge.
the god Odin, Woden, or Wotan: Aesir / Enlil–air-god name bridge.