
Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, generally portrays Odin as king of the gods and associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and depicts him as the husband of the goddess Frigg. Odin ( / ˈ oʊ d ɪ n/ from Old Norse: Óðinn, IPA: ) is a widely revered god in Germanic mythology. Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, by Georg von Rosen (1886)
