Odin the Wanderer: The All-Father in Norse Mythology, c. 800–1100 | Calm Bedtime History
Somewhere in Iceland, around the year 1000, a poet sits by a long fire in a dark hall. Outside, the autumn wind carries the smell of sulfur from the hot springs. He has memorized verses that his grandfather learned from a traveler from Norway, verses about a god who gave an eye for wisdom and hung nine nights from a tree. The fire crackles. He begins to speak of Óðinn.
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