noun Scandinavian Mythology.
- the ruler of the Aesir and god of war, poetry, knowledge, and wisdom; Wotan: the chief god.
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- Norse myth the supreme creator god; the divinity of wisdom, culture, war, and the deadGermanic counterpart: Wotan, Woden
chief Teutonic god, the All-Father, a 19c. revival in reference to Scandinavian neo-paganism, from Danish, from Old Norse Oðinn, from Proto-Germanic *Wod-enaz- (source of Old English Woden, Old High German Wuotan), probably from *wod-eno-/*wod-ono- “raging, mad, inspired,” from root *wet- “to blow, inspire, spiritually arouse” (see wood (adj.)). In Norse mythology, the solemn ruler of the gods. He was god of wisdom, poetry, farming, and war.