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 ... religion of Anglo-Saxon and continental Germanic peoples than is known about Norse paganism, Woden is attested in English, German, and Dutch ...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)