Odin was believed not only to give victory to his favourites, but other gifts, and is represented as coming to the aid of his followers, in the guise of an one-eyed old man—
Ride shall we
To Valhalla,
To the holy place.
Let us ask the father of hosts
To be kind (to us);
He pays and gives
Gold to his host;
He gave to Hermód
A helmet and brynja,