List of places named after Odin
Many toponyms contain the name of Odin.
Scandinavia, Nordic and Baltic countries
Denmark
- Odense
- Onsberg – formally Othensberg, "Odin's Berg".
- Onsbjerg
- Onsholt – "Odin's Holt", located in Viby, Jutland. A marked hill now covered in corn fields that was, up until about the 18th century, covered in wetlands on all sides. It was covered by a wood during the Viking Age. Viby may mean "the settlement by the sacred site" and contains traces of sacrifices going back 2,500 years.
- Onsild
- Onsved
- Othinshille
- Vojens – from "Odin's Temple".
Estonia
Finland
- Island of Odensö – also known as Udensö, literally "Odin's island". Probably a medieval transformation of an original Finnic name unrelated to Odin.
Norway
Sweden
- Odensbacken – Odin's Slope
- Odensberg, Schonen – "Odin's Berg".
- Odensvi – Odin's Sanctuary, a place name appearing in Västmanland, Närke & Småland.
- Odinslund, modern toponym
- Onsjö, Odensjö & Odensjön – Odin Lake/''The Odin Lake, several places in southern Sweden
- Onslunda – Odin's Grove
- Odenplan – "Odin's Square" in Stockholm.
- *Odengatan – "Odin Street"; running past Odenplan up to Valhallavägen "Valhalla Way" in Stockholm, modern toponyms
- Odensåker, Skaraborg – Odin's Field
- Odenssala Odin's Hall or Odin's Sala, originally Odhins Harg meaning Odin's Shrine''
Mainland Europe
France
- Northern France around Audresselles district of Marquise:
- *Audinghen –
Germany
- Bad Godesberg – originally spelt Wuodenesberg, which is "Wotan's mountain".
- Gudensberg – originally spelt Wodenesberg which means the same as above.
- Godensholt – formerly Wodensholt, Wotan's wood.
- Odisheim – in
- Wodensweg.
- Odenwald
Netherlands
UK
England
- Odin Mine, Castleton, Derbyshire
- Odin Sitch, Castleton, Derbyshire
- Wambrook, Somerset – "Woden's Brook".
- Wampool, Hampshire – "Woden's Pool".
- Wanborough, Wiltshire – from Wôdnes-beorg, "Woden's Barrow".
- Wanborough, Surrey.
- Wansdyke – "Woden's dyke, embankment".
- Wanstead, Essex – "Woden's Stead".
- Wednesbury – "Woden's burgh".
- * in Wednesbury.
- Wednesfield – "Woden's field".
- Wednesham, Cheshire – "Woden's Ham".
- Wensley – "Woden's meadow".
- Wembury, Devon – "Woden's Hill/Barrow" from the Old English "Wódnesbeorh".
- Woden's Barrow – also Christianized as Adam's Grave or Walker's Hill, a barrow in Wiltshire. The Old English spelling was "Wodnes-beorh".
- Woden Hill, Hampshire – a hill in Bagshot Heath.
- A valley which the West Overton–Alton road runs through was called Wodnes-denu which means "Woden's Valley".
- Wonston, Hampshire – "Woden's Town".
- Woodbridge, Suffolk – Wodenbrycge.
- Woodnesborough- also translates as "Woden's burgh", the centre of the town was known as "Woden's hill".
- Woodway House – from the house on Woden's Way.
- Wormshill – also derived from "Woden's hill".
- Grimsdyke – from "Grim", which means both "hooded" and "fierce", another name used for Woden.
- *Grim's Ditch – a 5–6 mile section on the Berkshire Downs, the chalk escarpment above the Oxfordshire villages of Ardington, Hendred and Chilton.
- *Grim's Ditch (Harrow) – also known as Grimsdyke. A section of Anglo-Saxon era trenches in Harrow. Frederick Goodall's house Grim's Dyke and a local school are named after the area.
- * Grim's Ditch (Hampshire) – another set of earthworks.
- *Grim's Ditch (South Oxfordshire) – Iron Age/early Roman era earthworks in Oxfordshire.
- Grimes Graves
- Grimsbury, Oxfordshire.
- Grimsbury Castle, Berkshire – hillfort occupied at least between the 3rd and 2nd Centuries B.C. Named after Woden by the Saxons.
- Grimley, Worcestershire – from the Old English "Grimanleage", which means "the wood or clearing of Grim "
- Grimspound – an Iron Age settlement on Dartmoor.
- Grimscote – a village in Northamptonshire, "Grim's Cott"
- Grimsthorpe – a village in Lincolnshire, "Grim's Thorpe"
- Roseberry Topping – Óðins bjarg.
- The ford on the River Irwell which Regent's Bridge, Ordsall, now crosses, was traditionally called "Woden's Ford" and a nearby cave was known as "Woden's Den".
Scotland
- Edin's Hall Broch, Berwickshire, sometimes Odin's Hall Broch and originally Wooden's Hall
- Grim's Dyke – another term used for the Antonine Wall
- Woden Law – "Woden Hill", an Iron Age hillfort in the Cheviot Hills very close to the border with Northumberland.
Outside Europe
Australia
- Woden Valley, a district of Canberra.