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    Woden is the name the Anglo-Saxons — the English-speaking people of England more than a thousand years ago — gave to the chief god of their religion, the same god the Norse people in called . He was the god of wisdom, poetry, magic and battle, an old one-eyed in a wide hat who gave up an eye in exchange for knowledge. Two names, one god, two different branches of the same old Germanic family, which is why he shows up in English books under both. His name is still spoken every week in English, though almost nobody notices. Wednesday is day: in Old English Wōdnesdæg, " day", made to match the Roman Mercurii dies, Mercury's day — which is also why Wednesday is mercredi in French and 星期三 has no such story at all. That silent d in the middle of Wednesday, the one that makes the spelling so , is the last piece of name hanging on. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday keep other gods the same way: Tiw, Thunor (Thor), and Frige. You will meet Woden mostly in history books, in writing about Old English, and in fantasy stories; in modern novels and films the Norse form is far more common.

    沃登（盎格魯撒克遜人的主神，即北歐神話的奧丁 Odin；Wednesday 星期三就是「沃登之日」）

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組成From Old English Wōden, which goes back to Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz. The same name became Óðinn in Old Norse — English Odin — and Wotan in German, so Woden, Odin and Wotan are three forms of one original name.

同家族的字

  • Wednesdayfrom Old English Wōdnesdæg, "Woden's day" — the silent d is what's left of his name
  • Odinthe Norse form of the same Proto-Germanic name *Wōdanaz

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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Wodenname

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    The Germanic chief god, distributor of talents and god of wisdom and war (corresponding to Odin), especially in his Anglo-Saxon form.

    • From Woden, by which name they stiled Mercurie.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。