Uffon—this story is also historical. Shakspeare, who read Danish history, borrowed the circumstance of Vermund’s death for that of Gloster in King Lear.
Lidscialf—the throne of Odin.
Heimdaller—guardian of the bridge Bifrost, or the rainbow, by which the happy dead ascended into Asgard. He received the souls who were selected by the Valkyries, and conducted them to Odin.
Vile—god of archery; son of Odin and Rinda.
PART V.
Brage—god of music and song.
Hovamaal—bible of Odin.
Odin—a wise and virtuous warrior, whose beneficence procured him, among the early Scythians, deification. As a divinity, the father of gods and men, he is the husband of Frea (the earth), and from the union of divine love and the earth, spring light, heat, the elements, the seasons, strength, and genius, typified by Balder, Thor, Frey, Hoder, and Balder again, as orator and poet. Odin, mounted upon his horse Sleipner, represents active benevolence.
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