Odinnoun
/ˈəʊ.dɪn//ˈoʊ.dɪn/in Norse mythology (= ancient stories from Scandinavia), the god of war and death:
Norse mythology has it that Odin's horse was a giant, flying, eight-legged beast called Sleipnir.
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- Freya became one of the wives of Odin.
- Odin's servant Muninn informed Thor that Odin was dead.
- The Germanic tribes regarded the eagle as the bird of the god Odin.
- The peasants never harvested a field without putting out a sheaf for Odin's horse.
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