Fifty-Fourth Generation
54-1
Fjolnir
YNGVI-FREYSSON, son of Yngvi Frey, King of the Swedes, and Gerd Gymersdotter,was
born about 256 in Uppsala, Sweden. He died in Hleithra, Denmark.
54-3
Jokull
FROSTASSON, is printed as #36-3.
54-5
Odin
(Woden, Woutan), son of Frithuwald (Bor) and Beltsa, was born
about 215 in Asgard. He married Frigg (Friege) FREA.
"First ruler of the Svear. He was the god of war, "the raging one", and
was attended by wolves and two ravens. Woden himself was the chief god
of the warriors at the time of the migration because in the early centuries
of our era when the worship of Christ was advancing from Palestine to Britain,
the worship of Woden, coming probably from the Rhine lands, was spreading
both east and north. Woden, it seems, was driving out Thunor, the Thunderer,
the weather-god beloved by the common people, much as Thunor coming at
an earlier age from the west had driven out Tig (the god of our English
Tuesday), the oldest of the great gods, so old indeed that by the fifth
century he had faded into the background of men's minds. It was the kingly
families who looked to Woden. From him they traced their descent. (History
of the Anglo-Saxons, by R. Hodgkin, Vol. 1 & 2, 1952)
The few glimpses which we catch of Woden in England reveal him in a variety
of characters, but omit many features which in the past have been fastened
on him by borrowing from the Odin of Scandinavian mythology. He is not
the All-Father: he is no heathen counterpart of the Christian Deity; he
has no well-appointed residence like Valhalla. He is not a one-eyed god
who wanders about the world. He appears to be first and foremost the god
of War. He can give the victory. He can be appealed to in stress of battle;
he can be appeased by a massacre. He can make an imposing earth-work like
Woden's Dyke - 'the Wansdyke'. For the rest, we chiefly hear of Woden in
England as a name which in later times could be employed in spells, or
to head the genealogy of a royal family, and there, linked with other gods
or demi-gods, give the dynasty the stamp of respectability. In Germany
Woden was a new-fashioned god introduced late to the northern tribes as
the special protector of the kings and the military class. In England the
mass of the immigrants had for a time become fighting-men; and it was thus
that Woden nearly rivalled Thunor in the number of his place-names. (History
of the Anglo-Saxons, by R. Hodgkin, Vol. 1 & 2, 1952)
From the survival of heathen customs in Christian times, we see how mixed
were the ideas and how diversified were the practices of Anglo-Saxon heathenism;
and that the cults of Thunor and Woden were but novelties superimposed
on far older and better-rooted beliefs. (History of the Anglo-Saxons, by
R. Hodgkin, Vol. 1 & 2, 1952)
The warriors were called Berserks, who were Odin's own men, and 'went without
armour, and were made as dogs or wolves, and bit their shields and were
strong as bears or bulls'. (History of the Anglo-Saxons, by R. Hodgkin,
Vol. 1 & 2, 1952)
The ancestry of the Anglo-Saxon dynasties is invariably traced back to
the gods, to Woden in seven of the eight surviving genealogies and to Seaxnot
in the remaining one, the East Saxon dynasty. The Viking's banner had on
it an emblem of the bird of Odin, a raven. "From this Woden sprang all
our (the Northumbrian) royal family......." (The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles;
1953, 1960)
Odin (Old Norse Odhinn, Anglo-Saxon Woden, Old High German Wodan, Woutan),
in Norse mythology, king of the gods. His two black ravens, Huginn ("Thought")
and Muninn ("Memory"), flew forth daily to gather tidings of events all
over the world. As god of war, Odin held court in Valhalla, where all brave
warriors went after death in battle. His greatest treasures were his eight-footed
steed, Sleipner, his spear, Gungnir, and his ring, Draupner. Odin was also
the god of wisdom, poetry, and magic, and he sacrificed an eye for the
privilege of drinking from Mimir, the fountain of wisdom. Odin's three
wives were earth goddesses, and his eldest son was Thor, the god of Thunder.
(Encarta Encyclopedia '99, CD-rom)
Valkyries, in Scandinavian mythology, warrior maidens who attended Odin,
ruler of the gods. The Valkyries rode through the air in brilliant armor,
directed battles, distributed death lots among the warriors, and conducted
the souls of slain heroes to Valhalla, the great hall of Odin. Their leader
was Brunhild. (Encarta Encyclopedia '99, CD-rom)
Asgard, in Norse mythology, the abode of the gods. Access to Asgard was
possible only by crossing the bridge Bifrost (the rainbow). Asgard was
divided into 12 or more realms in which each principal god had his own
luxurious mansion of gold or silver. The most important palace was Valhalla,
the home of Odin, the chief of the gods. (Encarta Encyclopedia '99, CD-rom)
http://masseyfamgenealogy.tripod.com/a63.htm
"Indeed, the various monarchs of Europe, as attested to in the medieval
Viking sagas and histories, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and pedigree after
pedigree of every European royal lineage, are all traced back to the same
person. To the Germans he was known as Votan. To the Anglo-Saxons Woden.
To the Norse and other Scandinavians, he was known by the name by which
he is still commonly referred to today—Odin. Yet Odin is, of course, the
chief god of the Teutonic pantheon known as the Aesir, who lived at the
supposedly mythical Valhalla ("Hall of the Chosen") in Asgard—considered
the Norse version of "heaven."
http://www.ucg.org/brp/materials/throne/appendices/ap10.html
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Frigg
(Friege) FREA, daughter of Cadwalladr, was born about 219 in
Asgard.
"The chief goddess of the early German pantheon and the consort of the
god Wodan, who was the forerunner to Odin. Frea (Frig in Anglo-Saxon) gave
her name to Friday."
http://www.net-leroy.net/Frea.html
54-7
Odomir,
King of the FRANKS, son of Richemer, King of the Franks,was born before
114. He died in 128.
"Odomir [Odomar], king of the Franks 114-128, made a peace treaty with
the Romans and the Goths, died 128"
http://www.mythopedia.info/ancestry-franks.htm
54-9
Coel
"Old King Coel" (Coilus) King Of BRITAIN is printed as 47-7.
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