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O·din

(ō′dĭn)

n. Norse Mythology

The god of wisdom, war, art, culture, and the dead, and the supreme deity and creator of the cosmos and humans.

[Old Norse Ōdhinn; see wet- in Indo-European roots.]

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Odin

(ˈəʊdɪn) or

Othin

(Norse Myth & Legend) Norse myth the supreme creator god; the divinity of wisdom, culture, war, and the dead. Germanic counterpart: Wotan or Woden

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O•din

(ˈoʊ dɪn)

n.

the principal god of pagan Scandinavia.

[< Old Norse Ōthinn; c. Old English Wōden, Old Saxon Woden, Old High German Wuotan; compare Woden]

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Odin - (Norse mythology) ruler of the Aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of Frigg; identified with the Teutonic Wotan

Norse mythology - the mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment of Christianity

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``May the fiend fly away with me, and leave me in Ifrin with the souls of Odin and of Thor!'' answered Cedric impatiently, and would probably have proceeded in the same tone of total departure from his spiritual character, when the colloquy was interrupted by the harsh voice of Urfried, the old crone of the turret.

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"By the bones of the Daemon Odin," said he, "thou art the boldest-spoken man that ever I have seen in all my life.

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ODIN Sprint manages the design and graphics process for the Twinings lines, ensuring a predetermined best practice workflow is utilised to keep everyone up-to-date with the current status of the artwork and the responsibility of each internal or external party.

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As part of her work with Odin Teatret, Varley organises Transit, another international festival which provides a forum for actors to share their artistic and political visions.

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Mr Wakeman said, 'It was very windy and Odin, who is quite a young bird, sought shelter in the tree and got stuck in the branches.

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With the arrival of Odin in Southern Northland (clearly Denmark), all hell literally breaks loose, as rival religious fanatics and factions claim him as their own special prophet, seer, leader, even as Jesus Christ, and disputes over possession of both Odin and the island -- fairly well hidden behind sheer rock cliffs and precipices in the strait and in forgotten obscure historical records -- lead Southern Northland and its neighbor to the north and east, Northern Northland (Sweden), to the brink of war.

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Odin could traverse great distances on his sleek, eight-legged horse Sleipnir.

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In the Christian era, the raven -- once venerated as Odin's sacred bird of wisdom -- has been sadly downsized to the status of an outcast, as shown by the German expressions "Rabenmutter" (a cruel, heartless mother) and "Rabenvater" (cruel father).

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The two explosions here preceded the grenade blast several minutes later in the town proper of Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.

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Juvenal Azurin, PDEA director for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, identified the arrested suspects as Datunot Manunggal, 20, a resident of this city and Odin Talipasan, 49 of Poblacion Dalican, Datu Odin Sinsuat, who were nabbed during a drug entrapment operation at the public market of Datu Odin Sinsuat town.