Offa is made out to be the eighteenth in descent from Woden, who was the sixteenth from Noah!
I should be the best of days, for I am named for Woden, or Odin, the king of the gods.
Then the goats took the two sons of Woden back to their home in Asgard.
Sigge is generally held as the name of one of the sons of Woden.
Besides, there is the strongest external support for Woden in the very place which he occupies in the West-Saxon pedigree.
The soldiers of the Northland cried to him for help as often as they did to his father, Woden.
Tradition hath it that at the Anglian advent into this district, the worship of Woden was first set up in a grove at Wednesfield.
She was dead, and Woden had to go to the center of the universe to find her.
It should be observed that the deity from whom most English princes claimed descent is Woden, a universal and not a tribal god.
Once more, and for the last time, Woden has worshippers in Britain.
Anglo-Saxon god, Old English, see Odin.
