List of places named after Odin
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Many toponyms ("place names") contain the name of *Wodanaz (Norse Odin, West Germanic Woden)
- Odense (Denmark)
- Odensbacken (Sweden)
- Odinslund (Sweden)
- Oden (Sweden)
- Onsala (Sweden)
- Onsön (Sweden)
- Onsberget (Sweden)
- Onsätter (Sweden)
- Onsjö (Sweden)
- Onslunda (Sweden)
- Woodway House - from the house on Woden's Way.
- Wansdyke - "Woden's embankment"
- Grimsdyke - From Grim, "hooded", a description of his appearance
- Grimspound An Iron Age settlement on Dartmoor.
- Wednesfield - "Woden's field"
- Wensley - "Woden's meadow"
- Wednesbury - "Woden's burgh"
- Woodnesborough, Kent - also translates as "Woden's burgh" (and the centre of the town was known as "Woden's hill")
- Grims Dyke - another term used for the Antonine Wall.
- Woden Law - an Iron Age hillfort in the Cheviots
- Woden Valley, a district of Canberra
- Mount Odin, on Baffin Island Nunavut
- 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
- Woensdrecht
- Woezik
- France,
- Northern France around Audresselles (Oderzell) district of Marquise:
- Audinghen (Odingham), close to
- Raventhun (Raventown),
- Tardinghen (Thordingham)
- Loquinghen (Lokingham)
- Audembert (Odinberg)
- Central France (Berry):
- Northern France around Audresselles (Oderzell) district of Marquise:
- Estonia
- Island of Osmussaar (Odinsholm in Swedish, literally "Odin's islet")
