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Odinsman en · NOUN

Etymology

From Odin + -s- + -man.

Meanings

1. (Germanic) One who honours Odin as their primary god.
   • I felt the strain of my personal warder behind me—my lover, an Odinsman—trying to hold the chair. 2015, Diana L. Paxson, The Essential Guide to Possession, Depossession, and Divine Relationships, page 242:
   • This is creating a rather fractured view of Odin in modern times. When many modern Odinsmen talk about him, they talk about him in terms of the ancient views of him, fearing to say anything too radically different from what the ancient lore says of him. 2013, Wayland Skallagrimsson, Heathenry: A Study of Asatru in the Modern World, page 50:

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