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Odinism|ˈəʊdɪnɪz(ə)m|
[f. Odin + -ism.]
The worship of Odin, called the All-father, the chief deity of Norse mythology, corresponding to the OE. Woden, from whom most of the kingly lines of the Angles and Saxons reckoned their descent; the mythology and religious doctrine of the ancient Scandinavian people before the introduction of Christianity.
1848O. A. Brownson Wks. V. 257 A revival of Odinism, or the old Scandinavian heathenism. 1867Pearson Hist. Eng. I. 115 Odinism, in the 5th and 6th centuries, was probably very different from what it became at a later date.
So Oˈdinian, Oˈdinic, Odiˈnitic adjs., of or pertaining to Odin or Odinism; ˈOdinist, a votary of Odin; a student of Odinism; also attrib. or adj.
1864Webster, Odinic. 1864Miss Cobbe in Fraser's Mag. Mar. 310 The worst penalty of wickedness threatened by the Odinist religion. 1869Stuart Glennie Arthurian Local. iv. 111 So in what I may call Odinian Scotland, have we memorials of the Norsemen. 1879K. Blind in 19th Cent. June 1105 The apparently Arthurian, in reality Odinic, character of various North-British legends. 1883in Homilet. Monthly (N.Y.) Jan. (1884) 198 The Odinitic raven, the bird of memory of the old Norse Mythology. 1891Edin. Rev. Apr. 351 The Odinic code countenanced the exposure of sickly or superfluous infants. |