11) 54162. Simic, Charles. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...altarsIn a dark churchWhere they bring the cripple and the imbecileTo be healed.There's a woden block where bones are broken,Scraped clean-a river dried to its bed...
12) Rip Van Winkle, a Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker. Irving,
Washington. 1917. Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Vol. X,
Part 2. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
... By Woden, God of Saxons, From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday, Truth is a thing that ever I will keep Unto thylke day in which I creep into My sepulchre—...
13) Wordsworth, William. 1888. Complete Poetical Works.
...a spear To desecrate the Fane which heretofore He served in folly. Woden falls, and Thor Is overturned; the mace, in battle heaved (So might they dream) till victory...
14) Essex, Anglo-Saxon kingdom. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...6th cent. by Saxons who traced their royal line back to a continental Saxon god instead of to Woden, as did the rulers of other early kingdoms. Essex eventually included...
15) harlequin. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...*Herleking, from Old English Herla cyning, King Herla, a mythical figure identified with Woden....
16) Trin'ity. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Isis, and Horus.Eleusin ian Mysteries. Bacchus, Persephone (4 syl.), and Demeter.Goths. Woden, Frigga, and Thor.Greece (ancient). Zeus (1 syl.), Aphrodite, and Apollo.Iesini...
17) Thor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...with the hearth, and with agriculture. According to one legend he was the son of Woden. Thor was identified with the Roman god Jupiter, and among Germanic peoples...
18) 979. Mythic and pagan deities. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s
International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...Reimthursen (frost giants), Bori (fashioner of the world), Bor (father of Odin), Odin or Woden (the All-father, = Zeus); the Ęsir or Asas; Thor (the Thunderer), Balder...
19) Germanic religion. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...This pantheon, which according to some accounts consisted of 12 principal deities, had Woden (Odin) as its chief god. Other important deities were Tiw (Tyr), Thor...
20) Brunhild. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...in which she is Brunnehilde, makes her a Valkyrie who defies her father, the god Wotan (see Woden), to help the lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde. Wotan places her sleeping...
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