Biography of Odin

A – Senior and Principal of the gods of the north, the personification of all-pervading, vseoduhotvoryayuschey world power, the Creator, along with Willie and Vee, the universe, and with Lodurom and Generators – first people. O. called Alfaderom as governor Alfadera (vseottsa, the father of all) and the father of the gods, and Vadfaderom, ie, the father of the fallen on the battlefield, as well as many other names, which number in the northeast. mythology and sowing. Poetry 200. It seems a high one-eyed old man, with a long beard and penetrating, expressive face and on her head in his broad-brimmed hat, a striped cloak on his shoulders, holding a spear Gungner always spot-on and thought to the overwhelming fear that, on whom, in the beautiful finger Drepner ring, every ninth night, separated from himself, as a drop of eight similar rings on each shoulder O. crow sitting on one (Hugin, ie thought, another Mugina, ie, memory), which orbit the daily world and then reported to the OS they had seen; at his feet lie two wolves Gero and Frack (greedy and greedy); O. pays. them all the food that is put before him in the palace of the gods. By air OA is transferred to the eight-legged horse Sleipner, in the teeth of which are inscribed runes. O. Occurs in light Abode Valaskyalf, seated on a golden throne Lidskyalf, from which casts a glance the entire universe. Is he still has a special chamber, Valhalla, where he was feasting with eyngeriyami. It feeds on a single grape wine OA, while other gods are content with honey. O. wiser than all gods, because every day he drinks from a source of wisdom that is protected by a giant Mimerom, the latter took with OA for permission to drink from this source the precious pledge – one eye because of this AO-eye. OA also owns a lovely drink, reporting the gift of poetry – referred to. "Skaldic honey" – and called the "father of poetry, he is the inventor and keeper of the sacred runes, the patron of history, the goddess whose saga, has long conversations, and in general – the father of all knowledge. Name O. preserved in many place names in the north.