List of places named after Wodanaz
Many toponyms ("place names") contain the name of *Wodanaz (Norse Odin, West Germanic Woden)
Scandinavia, Nordic and Baltic countries
Denmark
- Odense[1]
- Onsberg - formally Othensberg, "Odin's Berg"[2].
- Onsbjerg[1]
- Onsholt - "Odin's Holt"[1], located in Viby, Jutland. A marked hill now covered in corn fields that was, up until about the 18th century, covered in wetlands on all sides. Covered by a wood (a "holt") during the Viking Age. Viby may mean "the settlement by the sacred site" and contains traces of sacrifices going back 2,500 years[note 1].[3]
- Onsild[1]
- Onsved[1]
- Othinshille[4]
- Vojens - from "Odin's Temple"[1][5].
Estonia
Finland
- Island of Odensö - also known as Udensö, literally "Odin's island". Probably a medieval transformation of an original Finnic name unrelated to Odin.[8]
Norway
Sweden
Mainland Europe
France
Germany
- Bad Godesberg - originally spelt Wuodenesberg, which is "Wuotan's mountain"[20].
- Gudensberg - originally spelt Wodenesberg which means the same as above[21].
- Godensholt - formerly Wodensholt, Wuotan's wood[2][21][22].
- Odisheim - in Low German: Godshem (literally in English: Odin's home or God's home, respectively)
- Wodensweg[2][21].
- Odenwald - Odins Forest,a region in Germany
Netherlands
United Kingdom
England
- Wambrook, Somerset - "Woden's Brook"[23][24][25][26][27].
- Wampool, Hampshire - "Woden's Pool"[23][24][25][26].
- Wanborough, Wiltshire - from Wôdnes-beorg, "Woden's Barrow" [2][24][25][26][28][29][30].
- Wanborough, Surrey[23][24][31][32].
- Wansdyke - "Woden's dyke, embankment"[2][23][33][34][35][36].
- Wanstead, Essex - "Woden's Stead"[23][25][37][38][39][40].
- Wednesbury - "Woden's burgh"[2][35][41][42].
- Wednesfield - "Woden's field"[2][35][42][43].
- Wednesham, Cheshire - "Woden's Ham"[2][23].
- Wensley - "Woden's meadow"[35][44][45][46].
- Wembury, Devon - "Woden's Hill/Barrow" from the Old English "Wódnesbeorh"[23][25][36][47].
- Woden's Barrow - also Christianized as Adam's Grave or Walker's Hill, a barrow in Wiltshire. The Old English spelling was "Wodnes-beorh"[48][49][50].
- Woden Hill, Hampshire - a hill in Bagshot Heath[23][36].
- A valley which the West Overton–Alton road runs through was called Wodnes-denu[34][51][52] which means "Woden's Valley"[34].
- Wonston, Hampshire - "Woden's Town"[23][24][36].
- Woodbridge, Suffolk - Wodenbrycge ("Woden's Bridge")[53][54][55][56].
- Woodnesborough- also translates as "Woden's burgh", the centre of the town was known as "Woden's hill"[23][24][34][35][57][58].
- Woodway House - from the house on Woden's Way[59].
- Wormshill - also derived from "Woden's hill"[34][60][61].
- Grimsdyke - from "Grim", which means both "hooded" and "fierce"[62][63], another name used for Woden[33].
- Grimes Graves[65][66][67][68]
- Grimsbury, Oxfordshire[35][69][70].
- Grimsbury Castle, Berkshire - hillfort occupied at least between the 3rd and 2nd Centuries B.C. Named after Woden by the Saxons[35][71].
- Grimley, Worcestershire - from the Old English "Grimanleage", which means "the wood or clearing of Grim (Woden)" [72][73]
- Grimspound - an Iron Age settlement on Dartmoor[35][74][75].
- Grimscote - a village in Northamptonshire, "Grim's Cott"[76]
- Grimsthorpe - a village in Lincolnshire, "Grim's Thorpe"[77][78]
- Roseberry Topping - Óðins bjarg ("Odin's rock or crag", plus "topping" added later)[79][80].
- The ford on the River Irwell which Regent's Bridge, Salford, now crosses, was traditionally called "Woden's Ford"[81][82].
Scotland
[85].
- Woden Law - "Woden Hill", an Iron Age hillfort in the Cheviots[86][87][88].
New World
Australia
Canada
United States
See also
Notes
- ^ The location contained other names such as Tyrseng ("Tyr's Meadow") which is itself located near Dødeå ("Stream of the dead" or "Dead Stream"). Religious practices associated with Odin and Tyr may have occurred in these places. Further, a spring dedicated to Holy Niels exists in the area that was likely a Christianization of prior indigenous pagan practice.
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