List of places named after Odin explained

Many toponyms ("place names") contain the name of Odin (Norse Óðinn, Old English Wōden, proto-Germanic Wōdanaz).

Scandinavia, Nordic and Baltic countries

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.
• Onsild^[1]
• Onsved^[1]
• Othinshille^[3]
• Vojens – from "Odin's Temple".^{[1] [4]}

Estonia

• Island of Osmussaar – "Odensholm" in Swedish,^{[5] [6]} literally "Odin's islet".

Finland

• Island of Odensö – also known as Udensö, literally "Odin's island". Probably a medieval transformation of an original Finnic name unrelated to Odin.^[7]

Norway

• Óðinsøy ("Odin's island").^{[8] [9]}

Sweden

• Odensbacken – Odin's Slope
• Odensberg, Schonen – "Odin's Berg".^[2]
• Odensvi – Odin's Sanctuary,^[10] a place name appearing in Västmanland, Närke & Småland.
• Odinslund,^[3] modern toponym
• Onsjö,^[11] Odensjö & Odensjön – Odin Lake/The Odin Lake, several places in southern Sweden
• Onslunda^[3] – Odin's Grove
• Odenplan – "Odin's Square" in Stockholm.^[12]
  • Odengatan – "Odin Street"; running past Odenplan up to Valhallavägen "Valhalla Way" in Stockholm, modern toponyms
• Odensåker, Skaraborg^{[13] [14] [15]} – Odin's Field
• Odenssala Odin's Hall or Odin's Sala, originally Odhins Harg meaning Odin's Shrine

Mainland Europe

France

• Northern France around Audresselles^[16] (Oderzell) district of Marquise:
  • Audinghen – ^{[17] [18]}

Germany

• Bad Godesberg – originally spelt Wuodenesberg, which is "Wotan's mountain".^[19]
• Gudensberg – originally spelt Wodenesberg which means the same as above.^[20]
• Godensholt – formerly Wodensholt, Wotan's wood.^{[2] [20] [21]}
• Odisheim – in Low German; Low Saxon; German, Low; Saxon, Low: Godshem (perhaps English: Wotan's home or God's home, respectively)
• Wodensweg.^{[2] [20]}
• Odenwald (disputed; most linguists disagree)

Netherlands

• Woensdrecht.^[22]
• Woensel^[2]
• Wânswert

UK

England

• Odin Mine, Castleton, Derbyshire^{[23] [24]}
• Odin Sitch, Castleton, Derbyshire^[25]
• Wambrook, Somerset – "Woden's Brook".^{[22] [26]}
• Wampool, Hampshire – "Woden's Pool".^{[22] [27]}
• Wanborough, Wiltshire – from Wôdnes-beorg, "Woden's Barrow".^{[2] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31]}
• Wanborough, Surrey.^{[22] [32] [33] [34]}
• Wansdyke – "Woden's dyke, embankment".^{[2] [22] [35] [36]}
• Wanstead, Essex – "Woden's Stead".^{[22] [27] [37] [38] [39] [40]}
• Wednesbury – "Woden's burgh".^{[2] [41]}
  • Woden Road in Wednesbury.
• Wednesfield – "Woden's field".^{[2] [42] [43]}
• Wednesham, Cheshire – "Woden's Ham".^{[2] [22]}
• Wensley – "Woden's meadow".^{[44] [45] [46]}
• Wembury, Devon – "Woden's Hill/Barrow" from the Old English "Wódnesbeorh".^{[22] [27] [47]}
• Woden's Barrow – also Christianized as Adam's Grave or Walker's Hill, a barrow in Wiltshire. The Old English spelling was "Wodnes-beorh".^{[48] [49] [50]}
• Woden Hill, Hampshire – a hill in Bagshot Heath.^{[22] [51]}
• A valley which the West Overton–Alton road runs through was called Wodnes-denu^{[36] [52] [53]} which means "Woden's Valley".^[36]
• Wonston, Hampshire – "Woden's Town".^{[22] [32] [51]}
• Woodbridge, Suffolk – Wodenbrycge ("Woden's Bridge").^{[54] [55] [56]}
• Woodnesborough- also translates as "Woden's burgh", the centre of the town was known as "Woden's hill".^{[22] [32] [36] [57] [58] [59]}
• Woodway House – from the house on Woden's Way.^[60]
• Wormshill – also derived from "Woden's hill".^{[36] [61] [62]}
• Grimsdyke – from "Grim", which means both "hooded" and "fierce",^[63] another name used for Woden.^[35]
  • 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^[64] 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.
• Grimes Graves^{[65] [66] [67] [68]}
• Grimsbury, Oxfordshire.^{[57] [69] [70]}
• Grimsbury Castle, Berkshire – hillfort occupied at least between the 3rd and 2nd Centuries B.C. Named after Woden by the Saxons.^{[57] [71]}
• Grimley, Worcestershire – from the Old English "Grimanleage", which means "the wood or clearing of Grim (Woden)" ^{[72] [73]}
• Grimspound – an Iron Age settlement on Dartmoor.^{[57] [74] [75]}
• Grimscote – a village in Northamptonshire, "Grim's Cott"^[76]
• Grimsthorpe – a village in Lincolnshire, "Grim's Thorpe"^{[77] [78]}
• Roseberry Topping – Óðins bjarg ("Odin's rock or crag", plus "topping" added later).^{[79] [80]}
• 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".^{[81] [82]}

Scotland

• Edin's Hall Broch, Berwickshire, sometimes Odin's Hall Broch and originally Wooden's (Woden's) Hall ^[83]
• Grim's Dyke – another term used for the Antonine Wall^{[84] [85] [86]}
• Woden Law – "Woden Hill", an Iron Age hillfort in the Cheviot Hills very close to the border with Northumberland.^{[87] [88] [89]}

Outside Europe

Australia

• Woden Valley, a district of Canberra.^[90]

Canada

• Mount Odin, on Baffin Island Nunavut.^{[91] [92]}
• Mount Odin, British Columbia

United States

• Odin, Illinois
• Odin, Minnesota
• Odin, Missouri
• Odin, Pennsylvania, in Potter County, PA.
• Woden, Iowa
• Woden, Texas, an unincorporated community in Nacogdoches County.^[93]

See also

• Toponymy
• Theophoric name
• Wednesday
• Names of Odin

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