138 examples of odin in sentences

Yes. Look at Christ upon his Cross; the sight which melted the hearts of our fierce forefathers, and turned them from the worship of Thor and Odin to the worship of 'The white Christ;' and from the hope of a Valhalla of brute prowess, to the hope of a heaven of righteousness and love.

This also was of immense influence, since it introduced to English readers a new and fascinating mythology, more rugged and primitive than that of the Greeks; and we are still, in music as in letters, under the spell of Thor and Odin, of Frea and the Valkyr maidens, and of that stupendous drama of passion and tragedy which ended in the "Twilight of the Gods."

But careful enquirers, who would disdain to condemn Macaulay on passages selected by undiscriminating admirers from his Essays, or Carlyle for his frank admiration of Thor and Odin and the virtues of Valhalla, will ask for a more satisfying explanation.

Across this Shakspearean plank, laid between Olympus and Asgard, or more strictly Alfheim, we gladly pass from the sunny realm of Zeus into that of his Northern counterpart, Odin, who ought to be dearer and more familiar to his descendants than the Grecian Jove, though he is not.

In the shade of its topmost branches stands Asgard, the abode of the Asen, who are called the Rafters of the World,to wit, Odin, Thor, Freir, and the other higher powers, male and female, of the old Teutonic religion.

Odin had his outlook in its top, where kept watch and ward the All-seeing Eye.

In the "Prose Edda," Hor replies to Ganglerwho is asking him about the board and lodgings of the heroes who had gone to Odin in Valhalla, and whether they had anything but water to drinkin huge disdain, inquiring of Gangler whether he supposed that the Allfather would invite kings and jarls and other great men, and give them nothing to drink but water.

Thor embodied more Teutonic attributes than Odin.

On the shoulders of Odin, the supreme Scandinavian deity, sat two ravens, whispering in his ears.

Odin mounts his war-steed.

Odin counselleth Mimir's head.

Nor wound nor scar my body bears, My lip made never moan, And Odin bold, who gave me life, Now comes and takes his own.

Cowards, old Odin held, inevitably went to the very bottom of Hela-pool, and by no possibility, unless of course they became brave at last, could rise out of that everlasting bog, but sank whining lower and lower, like mired cattle, to all eternity in the unfathomable peat-slime.

And if the twenty-first chapter of the Book of Revelation, and the eighth verse, is to be taken as it stands, their doom has not altered since Odin's time, unless to become still worse.

"Then shall fields unseeded bear, Ill shall flee, and Balder come, Dwell in Odin's highest hall, He and all the happy gods.

It was hammered out for her by four dwarfs, the four winds from the cardinal points, and Odin seeks to get it from her.

While the three grim men prostrated themselves by their fire, and the horrible woman that was the spouse of one, he saw the gods coming gauntly over the wold, beheld the gods of Old England hungrily snuffing the savour, Odin, Balder, and Thor, the gods of the ancient people, beheld them eye to eye clear and close in the twilight, and the office of postman fell vacant in Otford-under-the-Wold.

"Right on the slayer of Odorik, the son of Odo, of the lineage of Odin, our guest, and of the King's trust.

Were I to receive treble the weight of gold, how should that enable me to face my son in the halls of Odin, with his blood unavenged?" There was a murmur, and the King exclaimed "Now, now, Odo, we know no more of Odin.

Were I to receive treble the weight of gold, how should that enable me to face my son in the halls of Odin, with his blood unavenged?" There was a murmur, and the King exclaimed "Now, now, Odo, we know no more of Odin.

" "Odin knows us no more," retorted the old man, "since we have washed ourselves in the Name of another than the mighty Thor, and taken up the weakly worship of the conquered.

BRAGI, the Norse god of poetry and eloquence, son of Odin and Frigga; represented as an old man with a long flowing beard and unwrinkled brow, with a mild expression of face; received in Valhalla the heroes who fell in battle.

FRIDAY, the sixth day of the week, so called as consecrated to Freyia or Frigga, the wife of Odin; is proverbially a day of ill luck; held sacred among Catholics as the day of the crucifixion, and the Mohammedan Sunday in commemoration as the day on which, as they believe, Adam was created.

FRIGGA, a Scandinavian goddess, the wife of Odin; worshipped among the Saxons as a goddess mother; was the earth deified, or the Norse Demeter.

VALHALLA, Hall of Odin, the heaven of the brave in the Norse mythology, especially such as gave evidence of their valour by dying in battle, the "base and slavish" being sent to the realm of Hela, the Death-Goddess.

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