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Sol Victor, the Yule {i.e., hjul , “ wheel ”) sun of December 25, 
the returning and brightening sun. Descended to the Under- 
world to fetch Baldr from the realms of the dead. 
Hodhr. The name, according to Thorpe, signifies “ war or 
battle,” but this is very doubtful. “ It may be traced in the 
forms Hadupracht, Hadufians, etc., to the Chatumerus of 
Tacitus.”* * * § The blind god, lord of darkness, who, accidentally 
and at the instigation of the evil Loki, slays Baldr, his twin- 
brother {i.e., the powers of day and night are twins), and is 
slain in turn by his brother Vali when the latter is only one 
night old (- i.e ., by the sun of the next day) . 
Hoenr. “The Winged.” The air-spirit, one of the creat- 
ing triad. 
Iduna. “The Fair-one.” From the root id, ‘ again/ ex- 
pressive of activity and renovation. Cf. the Vedic Ida, the 
cultivated earth. Guardian of the golden apples of ever- 
youth. 
Odhinn. “The Pervader.” Old High-German, Wuotan; 
New High-German, Wodan ; Frisian, Weda; Sax. Wuodan, 
Woden. From vadha, f to g o;’ pret. vodh or odh. f Cf. 
Latin, vadere ; Sanskrit root, vd, “ to blow ” ; vata, “ air,” 
and hence the air-god ; Greek ao , aer, etc. The divine prot- 
agonist, king and father of the gods, the 93ther-wind- spirit of 
the world. Called Alfadir, “ Father-of-all ” ; Thrida, “the 
Third” ; Har, “ the High”; Gangleri, “ the Ganger ” or quick- 
goer; Yggr, “ Deep-thinker” ; Valfadir, “ Sire-of-the-slain,” 
and has about two hundred other epithets. One of the creating 
triad, and lord of Wednesday. Sometimes united with and 
sometimes distinguished from a still higher and more august 
All- Father; turned by Christianity into a demon, and becomes 
the Wild-huntsman, etc. 
Oegir. “ The Dread.” Cf. Ogen, Ogyges, Ogre. God of 
the stormy sea, whose name is still given to the tidal wave on 
some English rivers, e.g., the Ouse and Trent. J His wife is 
Ban, “ the Bobber,” the hungry sea. 
Thorr. “The Extended. ”§ Old High-German, Donar ; 
* Mythology of the Aryan Nations , ii. 93. 
t Vide C. W. Keary, Wind Myths (in The Contemporary Review, July, 
1875, p. 282). 
I “ Lo ! along the river’s bed a mighty eygre reared his crest” (Miss 
Ingelow, The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire). 
§ “ The word in its first meaning has no reference to noise. The root 
denotes simply extension as applied, whether to sound or to any other objects, 
and from it we have the Greek and Latin words tsivoj and tendo, to stretch, 
rovog, tone, i.e., the stretching and vibration of chords ” (. Mythology of the 
Aryan Nations, i. 378). 
