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 have a similar challenge, where Yafthrudner sajs to Odin:

Out will you not come From our halls Unless I find you to be wiser (than I am).

This chapter gives twelve names of Odin. In the Eddas and in the skaldic lays he has in all nearly two hundred names. His most common name is Odin (in Anglo-Saxon and in Old High German Wodan), and this is thought by many to be of the same origin as our word god. The other Old Norse word for god, tivi, is identical in root with Lat. divus * Sansk. dwaH Gr. ^16q {Ztuq)-^ and this is again connected with Tyi the Tivisco in the Germania of Tacitus. (See Max Miiller's Lectures on the Science of Language, 2d series, p. 425). Paulus Diakonus states that Wodan, or Gwodan, was worshiped by all branches of the Teutons. Odin has also been sought and found in the Scythian Zalmoxis^ in the Indian Buddha^ in the Celtic Budd, and in the Mexican Yotan. Zalmoxis, derived from the Gr. Zalfibq^ helmet, reminds us of Odin as the helmet-bearer (Grimm, Gesch. der Deutschen Sprache). According to Humboldt, a race in Guatemala, Mexico, claim to be descended from Yotan (Yues des Cordilléres, 1817, I, 208). This suggests the question whether Odin's name may not have been brought to America by the Norse discoverers in the 10th and 11th centuries, and adopted by some of the native races. In the Lay of Grimner (Elder Edda) the following names of Odin are enumerated: