Wōden
... Woden or Wodan (Old English Ƿōden, Old High German Wôdan, Old Saxon Uuôden) is a major deity of Anglo-Saxon and Continental Germanic polytheism ... Together with his Norse counterpart Odin, Woden represents a development of the Proto-Germanic god *Wōdanaz ... continental Germanic peoples than is known about Norse paganism, Woden is attested in English, German, and Dutch toponyms as well as in various texts and pieces of archeological evidence from the ...Famous quotes containing the word woden:
“There are knives that glitter like altars
In a dark church
Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
To be healed.
There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)