Sometime after Thor's birth, Fjörgyn died, leaving Odin heartbroken and alone for many years.

Odin also married the giantess Fjörgyn, with whom he had Thor. At some point during this quest, he sought out Giant Skaði's hand in marriage, but when she rejected his affections, Odin tricked her into killing her own father out of pettiness, which inadvertently led to her own death. The Dwarves refused but were still forced to construct the statue.Īround this time, Odin also began marrying women and expanding his family, hoping to gain strong children. Odin also searched for Brok and Sindri to construct a Statue of Thor within which to hide Mimir's severed eye. After he imprisoned his adviser, Odin removed one of Mimir's eyes and tortured him on a daily basis. However, Odin instantly figured out that Mimir had fooled him but allowed him to become his adviser due to his immense intelligence. Fortunately, he was stopped by Mimir from finishing the job and was convinced by Mimir that he had sacrificed his eye for knowledge. Odin was initially so impressed with this well that whatever he saw in his hallucinations made him start to tear out both of his eyes.

Everyone else he relegated to the icy wasteland known as Helheim.Īt some point, Mimir came to Odin with Mímisbrunnr, a 'Mystic Well of Knowledge' but it was really a well laced with enough magic mushrooms to give even a god as powerful as him visions. To prepare for this impending threat, Odin would permit only the best warriors who had died in battle into Valhalla.

He would later use Valhalla as part of his future plans to try and thwart Ragnarok, a prophesied catastrophic event that would lead to an apocalypse and the deaths of most of the Norse Gods. Eventually, Odin would create the first Humans Ask and Embla.Īt an unknown point in time, Odin would go on to form Asgard and declare himself the King of the Aesir. Odin would then create the realm of Midgard from Ymir’s torn flesh. However, unlike Ymir, Odin felt that the Aesir were fit to be the supreme rulers of the Nine Realms and so he, along with his brothers Vili and Vé killed Ymir and anyone else who stood in their path, with Odin himself taking the place of the 'Allfather', after that, Ymir's blood drowned all Jötnar, except Bergelmir and his wife. Odin was a grandson of Búri the first of the Aesir gods, who had sprung from Ymir, the first Giant and father of all life and one of the sons of Borr. He was usually depicted wearing a cloak and a wide-brimmed hat and carrying his spear Gungnir, a legendary artifact that once tossed never misses its target. His outward appearance he was an old man, with flowing beard and only one eye (the other he gave in exchange for wisdom). Odin was one of the greatest wizards among the gods and was associated with runes. He had a mythical horse called Sleipnir, who had eight legs, teeth inscribed with runes, and the ability to gallop through the air and over the sea. Odin appeared in heroic literature as the protector of heroes fallen warriors joined him in Valhalla. Odin, also known as Woden and Wotan, was the Chief God of Norse mythology.

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