List of places named after Odin

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Many toponyms ("place names") contain the name of *Wodanaz (Norse Odin, West Germanic Woden)

Scandinavia


England
Scotland
  • Grims Dyke - another term used for the Antonine Wall.
  • Woden Law - an Iron Age hillfort in the Cheviots
Australia
Canada
Continental Europe
  • Germany
    • Almost all German Gaue (Latin, pagi) had mountains and other places named after him under such generic names as Wodensberg, Wuodenesberg, Godesberg and Gudensberg, Wodensholt, "Odenwald", etc.
  • Netherlands
  • France,
  • Estonia
    • Island of Osmussaar (Odinsholm in Swedish, literally "Odin's islet". Possibly a medieval transformation of an original Finnic name unrelated to Odin)
  • Finland
    • Island of Odensö (also known as Udensö, literally "Oden's island". Possibly a medieval transformation of an original Finnic name unrelated to Odin)