List of places named after Odin

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Many toponyms ("place names") contain the name of *Wodanaz (Norse Odin, West Germanic Woden)

Scandinavia
England
  • Woodway House - from the house on Woden's Way.
  • Wansdyke - "Woden's embankment"
  • Grimsdyke - From Grim, "hooded", a description of his appearance
  • Grimspound An Iron Age settlement on Dartmoor.
  • Wednesfield - "Woden's field"
  • Wensley - "Woden's meadow"
  • Wednesbury - "Woden's burgh"
  • Woodnesborough, Kent - also translates as "Woden's burgh" (and the centre of the town was known as "Woden's hill")
Scotland
  • Grims Dyke - another term used for the Antonine Wall.
  • Woden Law - an Iron Age hillfort in the Cheviots
Australia
Canada
  • Mount Odin, on Baffin Island Nunavut
Continental Europe
  • Germany
    • Almost all German Gaue (Latin, pagi) had mountains and other places named after him under such generic names as Wodensberg, Wuodenesberg, Godesberg and Gudensberg, Wodensholt, "Odenwald", etc.
  • Netherlands
  • France,
    • Northern France around Audresselles (Oderzell) district of Marquise:
      • Audinghen (Odingham), close to
      • Raventhun (Raventown),
      • Tardinghen (Thordingham)
      • Loquinghen (Lokingham)
      • Audembert (Odinberg)
    • Central France (Berry):
  • Estonia
    • Island of Osmussaar (Odinsholm in Swedish, literally "Odin's islet")
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