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- Title
Óðinn as Cargo-God: a Suggestion from Beowulf.
- Authors
Neidorf, Leonard; Xu, Na
- Abstract
One name for Óðinn that has long produced disagreement among scholars is Farmatýr ("god of cargoes"). Some construe the name in connection with the equation of Mercury and *Wōðanaz during the Common Germanic period, while others construe the name in connection with kennings associated with Óðinn. Drawing on a passage in Beowulf to which the name has never been related, we propose that Farmatýr refers to Óðinn's connection with the ship burial ritual and reflects an expectation that Óðinn would receive the cargo that was loaded onto funerary ships dispatched to the afterlife.
- Subjects
SHIP burials; OLD Norse language; OLD English language; GERMANIC mythology; AFTERLIFE
- Publication
Neophilologus, 2023, Vol 107, Issue 3, p413
- ISSN
0028-2677
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11061-022-09745-6