Word: odin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That also reminds me of the many times your magazine and also The March of Time have spoken and written about the old German gods Wodin and Thor, etc. These are essentially Danish, from away back into the dark 400 A.D. and were known as Odin and Thor, hence the weekdays, Onsdag (Wednesday) & Torsdag (Thursday) ; and Fredag (Friday) from Freja (j pronounced as y), Goddess of Beauty and Intelligence...
...Rosenberg is not entirely unreligious. Indeed out of his revised history and his Nordic mythology he has erected a pagan worship which substitutes Odin for Moses, Siegfried for Saul, and 2,000,000 World War heroes for Christianity's company of saints. His pale eyes glowing, Dr. Rosenberg shouts: "The new mythology cannot be downed!" And throughout Germany strange little pagan cults pop up like autumn crocuses. Latest of them is the Nordic Religious Community, founded last week, which is pantheistic and rejects the doctrine of atonement. The pagan cultists are genuinely, if boisterously and truculently pious, and in their...
Bendek, besides being a real man, is also something of a thief. Odin can put up with his stealing fish from other folks' nets, but when Bendek impounds a neighbor's ram to slaughter it, Odin sets it free. Bendek admires that kind of spirit - "he can be whatever he chooses, par son or pirate, that one" - but he has not so much of it as Odin. On a dare from the Jörnstrand boys Odin takes Bendek's bewitched otter-gun, shoots a grey troll-creature that appears on an island offshore. When Bendek discovers...
...lives at Vennestad with her husband Iver who is none too pleased to take her bastard into their home. But out of loyalty to his mother Odin keeps the home fires burning cool. His Juviking father, Otte Vetran, returned from America, has settled in the neighborhood. He makes a quiet living at cabinetmaking, preaches, lives a strange philosophy-"Resist not evil!" Towards him Odin, in spite of his love for his mother and Karen-Anna, is irresistibly drawn. After a series of boyish escapades, capped by a miraculous escape from drowning, Odin leaves home to join his father...
...ODIN IN FAIRYLAND-Olav Duun- Knopf...