{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml08_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml08_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml08_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/tml/tml08.htm","summary":"This is a chapter from a 1912 popular retelling of Norse mythology, written in an archaic literary register that blends direct narrative with verse quotations from the Eddas. The central content traces Odin's defining attributes \u2014 his one-eyed wisdom, his ravens and wolf-dogs, his mastery of runes and poetry \u2014 by grounding them in specific mythological episodes: his sacrifice of an eye to drink from Mimer's well, his nine nights hanging on Yggdrasil to discover runic secrets, and his elaborate infiltration of the fire-giant Suttung's hall to recover the stolen skaldic mead. The mead-recovery episode is the most developed narrative, in which Odin disguises himself as the criminal Ivalde-Svigdur, marries a giant's daughter under false pretenses, and escapes in eagle form \u2014 with Mackenzie noting explicitly that the evil means used to achieve good ends will ultimately cause Surtur to burn the world in revenge. A distinctively euhemeristic thread runs throughout, as Mackenzie repeatedly equates figures across traditions: the myth's Hyuki becomes Slagfin and the Saxon hero Hengest, Ivalde-Svigdur becomes \"the Man in the Moon,\" and Heimdal is identified with Rati. The chapter also positions Odin as the originator of poetry itself, treating the mead myth as an etiology for all human song and suffering.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Teutonic Myth and Legend: Chapter III. The Deeds of Odin","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","translated_text":null,"word_count":2250}