Wodan

"I lay the widow's curse on you, murderer, and I call Wodan against you!

Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

Then a creeping feeling of inexorable dread washed over me and I began to despair of the world and the future and I knew, in the core of my shivering, embattled soul, that the universe was cold and empty except for hideous, immense, eternal beings who do not notice our existence and will destroy us without a thought like gods of old, Ba'al, Chalmecatl and Wodan, who people tried to appease with human flesh.

Kittens, inspired by kittens.... Ann Althouse 2009

The adventures of Siegfried and his ancestors are here related in great detail and his ancestry traced back to Wodan.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

(“Brynhild”, “Brunhild”), who, stung by the sleep thorn of Wodan, and clad in full armor, lies asleep within a castle that is surrounded by a wall of flame.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

This treasure, with its accompanying curse, next passes into the hands of a human being named Sigurd (the Norse form of Siegfried, as we have seen), a descendant of the race of the Volsungs, who trace their history back to Wodan and are especially favored by him.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

"There's flesh on her limbs, brother, though something's put the fear of Wodan into her."

Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

"Yes," answered Solbern at his brother's shoulder, "this night Wodan fetches you, oathbreaker, and ill is that house to which he will take you."

Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

"If you are indeed Wodan, he is a wretched god, who could not or would not help my sons in their need."

Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

Your presence through the generations, the veritable Wodan, did more than put genes of yours into the family.

Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

On this night, one and a half thousand years after that night, I felt as if it were somebody else, Wodan indeed, the forever homeless.

Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983