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Odin (Óðinn)

2020-01-30 · 1,551 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Odin (Óðinn) — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Wyrd is too vast and too complex, for us to comprehend, for we are ourselves, part of wyrd and cannot stand back to obs
Odin (Óðinn) — pen and ink drawing

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"Wyrd is too vast and too complex, for us to comprehend, for we are ourselves, part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force. Just as fisherman cannot see the full extent of the seas, so even a sorcerer cannot view the totality of wyrd." – Brian Bates, in "The Way of the Wyrd : Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer" (1983).

"I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am also called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens…

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