List of places named after Odin
Many
toponyms ("place names") contain the name of Odin
(Norse Óðinn, Old English Wōden, proto-Germanic Wōdanaz).
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. It was 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
- Odensbacken – Odin's Slope
- Odensberg, Schonen – "Odin's Berg".[2]
- Odensvi – Odin's Sanctuary,[11] a place name appearing in Västmanland, Närke & Småland.
- Odinslund,[4] modern toponym
- Onsjö,[12] Odensjö & Odensjön – Odin Lake/The Odin Lake, several places in southern Sweden
- Onslunda[4] – Odin's Grove
- Odenplan – "Odin's Square" in Stockholm.[13]
- Odengatan – "Odin Street"; running past Odenplan up to Valhallavägen "Valhalla Way" in Stockholm, modern toponyms
- Odensåker, Skaraborg[14][15][16] – Odin's Field
- Odenssala Odin's Hall or Odin's Sala, originally Odhins Harg meaning Odin's Shrine
Mainland Europe
France
Germany
- Bad Godesberg – originally spelt Wuodenesberg, which is "Wotan's mountain".[20]
- Gudensberg – originally spelt Wodenesberg which means the same as above.[21]
- Godensholt – formerly Wodensholt, Wotan's wood.[2][21][22]
- Low German: Godshem (perhaps English: Wotan's home or God's home, respectively)
- Wodensweg.[2][21]
- Odenwald (disputed; most linguists disagree)
Netherlands
UK
England
- Odin Mine, Castleton, Derbyshire[24][25]
- Odin Sitch, Castleton, Derbyshire[26]
- Wambrook, Somerset – "Woden's Brook".[23][27][28][29][30]
- Wampool, Hampshire – "Woden's Pool".[23][27][28][29]
- Wanborough, Wiltshire – from Wôdnes-beorg, "Woden's Barrow".[2][27][28][29][31][32][33]
- Wanborough, Surrey.[23][27][34][35]
- Wanstead, Essex – "Woden's Stead".[23][28][40][41][42][43]
- Wednesbury – "Woden's burgh".[2][38][44][45]
- Woden Road in Wednesbury.
- Wednesfield – "Woden's field".[2][38][45][46]
- Wednesham, Cheshire – "Woden's Ham".[2][23]
- Wensley – "Woden's meadow".[38][47][48][49]
- Wembury, Devon – "Woden's Hill/Barrow" from the Old English "Wódnesbeorh".[23][28][39][50]
- Woden Hill, Hampshire – a hill in
- A valley which the West Overton–Alton road runs through was called Wodnes-denu[37][54][55] which means "Woden's Valley".[37]
- Wonston, Hampshire – "Woden's Town".[23][27][39]
- Woodbridge, Suffolk – Wodenbrycge ("Woden's Bridge").[56][57][58]
- Woodnesborough- also translates as "Woden's burgh", the centre of the town was known as "Woden's hill".[23][27][37][38][59][60]
- Woodway House – from the house on Woden's Way.[61]
- Wormshill – also derived from "Woden's hill".[37][62][63]
- Grimsdyke – from "Grim", which means both "hooded" and "fierce",[64] another name used for Woden.[36]
- Grim's Ditch – a 5–6 mile section on the Berkshire Downs, the chalk escarpment above the Oxfordshire villages of Ardington, Hendred and Chilton.
- Grim's Ditch (Harrow) – also known as Grimsdyke. A section of Anglo-Saxon era trenches in Harrow. Frederick Goodall's house Grim's Dyke and a local school[65] are named after the area.
- Grim's Ditch (Hampshire) – another set of earthworks.
- Grim's Ditch (South Oxfordshire) – Iron Age/early Roman era earthworks in Oxfordshire.
- Grimsbury, Oxfordshire.[38][70][71]
- Grimsbury Castle, Berkshire – hillfort occupied at least between the 3rd and 2nd Centuries B.C. Named after Woden by the Saxons.[38][72]
- Grimley, Worcestershire – from the Old English "Grimanleage", which means "the wood or clearing of Grim (Woden)" [73][74]
- Grimspound – an Iron Age settlement on Dartmoor.[38][75][76]
- Grimscote – a village in Northamptonshire, "Grim's Cott"[77]
- Grimsthorpe – a village in Lincolnshire, "Grim's Thorpe"[78][79]
- Roseberry Topping – Óðins bjarg ("Odin's rock or crag", plus "topping" added later).[80][81]
- The ford on the River Irwell which Regent's Bridge, Ordsall, now crosses, was traditionally called "Woden's Ford" and a nearby cave (no longer extant) was known as "Woden's Den".[82][83]
Scotland
- Edin's Hall Broch, Berwickshire, sometimes Odin's Hall Broch and originally Wooden's (Woden's) Hall [84]
- Grim's Dyke – another term used for the Antonine Wall[85][86][87]
- Woden Law – "Woden Hill", an Iron Age hillfort in the Cheviots very close to the border with Northumberland.[88][89][90]
New World
Australia
- Woden Valley, a district of Canberra.[91]
Canada
- Mount Odin, on Baffin Island Nunavut.[92][93]
- Mount Odin, British Columbia
United States
- Odin, Illinois
- Odin, Minnesota
- Odin, Missouri
- Odin, Pennsylvania, in Potter County, PA.
- Woden, Iowa
- Nacogdoches County.[94]
See also
- Toponymy
- Theophoric name
- Wednesday
- Names of Odin
Notes
- springdedicated to Holy Niels exists in the area that was likely a Christianization of prior indigenous pagan practice.
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