Chief god of Norse Mythology, Odin is th Alfather. He is considered a principal member of the Ęsir (Norse Pantheon) and is associated with wisdom, war, battle, and death, and also magic, poetry, prophecy, victory, and the hunt.
This detailed, hand-tinted, cold cast bronze statue of Odin features a number of magical artifacts associated with him: the spear Gungnir, which never misses its target; the two ravens Huginn and Muninn (Thought and Memory), who fly around Earth daily and report the happenings of the world to Odin in Valhalla at night; a pair of wolves named Geri and Freki, to whom he gives his food in Valhalla since he consumes nothing but mead or wine. From his throne, Hlidskjalf (located in Valaskjalf), Odin could see everything that occurred in the universe.
