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Many [[toponym]]s ("place names") contain the name of '''''*[[Wodanaz]]''''' (Norse '''[[Odin]]''', West Germanic '''[[Woden]]''')

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;[[Scandinavia]]

*''[[Odense]]'' ([[Denmark]])

*''Odensbacken'' ([[Sweden]])

*''Odinslund'' ([[Sweden]])

*''Oden'' ([[Sweden]])

*''Onsala'' ([[Sweden]])

*''Onsön'' ([[Sweden]])

*''Onsberget'' ([[Sweden]])

*''Onsätter'' ([[Sweden]])

*''Onsjö'' ([[Sweden]])

*''Onslunda'' ([[Sweden]])

;[[England]]:

*[[Woodway House]] - from the house on Woden's Way.

*[[Wansdyke (earthwork)|Wansdyke]] - "Woden's embankment"

*[[Grimsdyke]] - From Grim, "hooded", a description of his appearance

*[[Grimspound]] An Iron Age settlement on Dartmoor.

*[[Wednesfield]] - "Woden's field"

*[[Wensleydale|Wensley]] - "Woden's meadow"

*[[Wednesbury]] - "Woden's [[burgh]]"

*[[Woodnesborough, Kent]] - also translates as "Woden's burgh" (and the centre of the town was known as "Woden's hill")

;[[Scotland]]

*Grims Dyke - another term used for the Antonine Wall.

*Woden Law - an Iron Age hillfort in the Cheviots

;[[Australia]]:

*[[Woden Valley]], a district of [[Canberra]]

;[[Canada]]:

*[[Mount Odin]], on Baffin Island [[Nunavut]]

;Continental Europe

*[[Germany]]

**Almost all German ''Gaue'' (Latin, ''pagi'') had mountains and other places named after him under such generic names as ''[[Wodensberg]]'', ''Wuodenesberg'', [[Godesberg]] and ''Gudensberg'', ''Wodensholt'', "Odenwald", etc.

*[[Netherlands]]

**''[[Woensdrecht]]''

**''[[Woezik]]''

*[[France]],

**Northern France around [[Audresselles]] (Oderzell) district of [[Marquise]]:

***[[Audinghen]] (Odingham), close to

***Raventhun (Raventown),

***[[Tardinghen]] (Thordingham)

***[[Loquinghen]] (Lokingham)

***[[Audembert]] (Odinberg)

**Central France (Berry):

***[[Vatan]]

*[[Estonia]]

**Island of Osmussaar (Odinsholm in [[Swedish language|Swedish]], literally "Odin's islet")

*[[Finland]]

**Island of Odensö (also known as Udensö, literally "Oden's island")

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