Odin, the all-father

Odin is the main god in Nordic and continental Germanic mythology. In Eddic poetry, he functions as a father of the gods, a god of war and the dead, a god of poetry and runes, of magic and ecstasy, with distinct shamanic traits.

The cow Audhumbla licked the giant Bure from the salt-frosted stones; he had a son, Börr, who married the giant's daughter Bestla and with her fathered Odin, Vili and Vé. The last two are largely lost from the history of the Aesir, are rarely mentioned and are primarily restricted to a representative function for their brother; Odin, however, rules powerfully, creatively, through all time, until the conflagration of the world - the fate of the gods Ragnarök. The first deed of the three united brothers was that they set out against the giant Ymir, slew him and formed the world from his corpse. The world was flooded with Ymir's blood and only one couple survived: the giant Bergelmir and his wife.

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