# List of places named after Odin

Many toponyms ("place names") contain the name of Odin (Norse Óðinn, Old English Wōden, proto-Germanic Wōdanaz).

## Scandinavia, Nordic and Baltic countries
### Denmark

* Odense
* Onsberg – formally Othensberg, "Odin's Berg".
* Onsbjerg
* Onsholt – "Odin's Holt", located in Viby, Jutland. A marked hill now covered in corn fields that was, up until about the 18th century, covered in wetlands on all sides. It was covered by a wood (a "holt") during the Viking Age. Viby may mean "the settlement by the sacred site" and contains traces of sacrifices going back 2,500 years.
* Onsild
* Onsved
* Othinshille
* Vojens – from "Odin's Temple".

### Estonia

* Island of Osmussaar – "Odensholm" in Swedish, literally "Odin's islet".

### Finland

* Island of Odensö – also known as Udensö, literally "Odin's island". Probably a medieval transformation of an original Finnic name unrelated to Odin.

### Norway

* Óðinsøy ("Odin's island").

### Sweden

* Odensbacken – Odin's Slope
* Odensberg, Schonen – "Odin's Berg".
* Odensvi – Odin's Sanctuary, a place name appearing in Västmanland, Närke & Småland.
* Odinslund, modern toponym
* Onsjö, Odensjö & Odensjön – Odin Lake/The Odin Lake, several places in southern Sweden
* Onslunda – Odin's Grove
* Odenplan – "Odin's Square" in Stockholm.
** Odengatan – "Odin Street"; running past Odenplan up to Valhallavägen "Valhalla Way" in Stockholm, modern toponyms
* Odensåker, Skaraborg – Odin's Field
* Odenssala Odin's Hall or Odin's Sala, originally Odhins Harg meaning Odin's Shrine

## Mainland Europe
### France

* Northern France around Audresselles (Oderzell) district of Marquise:
** Audinghen –

### Germany

* Bad Godesberg – originally spelt Wuodenesberg, which is "Wotan's mountain".
* Gudensberg – originally spelt Wodenesberg which means the same as above.
* Godensholt – formerly Wodensholt, Wotan's wood.
* Odisheim – in Low German: Godshem (perhaps English: Wotan's home or God's home, respectively)
* Wodensweg.
* Odenwald (disputed; most linguists disagree)

### Netherlands

* Woensdrecht.
* Woensel
* Wânswert

## UK
### England

* Odin Mine, Castleton, Derbyshire
* Odin Sitch, Castleton, Derbyshire
* Wambrook, Somerset – "Woden's Brook".
* Wampool, Hampshire – "Woden's Pool".
* Wanborough, Wiltshire – from Wôdnes-beorg, "Woden's Barrow".
* Wanborough, Surrey.
* Wansdyke – "Woden's dyke, embankment".
* Wanstead, Essex – "Woden's Stead".
* Wednesbury – "Woden's burgh".
** Woden Road in Wednesbury.
* Wednesfield – "Woden's field".
* Wednesham, Cheshire – "Woden's Ham".
* Wensley – "Woden's meadow".
* Wembury, Devon – "Woden's Hill/Barrow" from the Old English "Wódnesbeorh".
* Woden's Barrow – also Christianized as Adam's Grave or Walker's Hill, a barrow in Wiltshire. The Old English spelling was "Wodnes-beorh".
* Woden Hill, Hampshire – a hill in Bagshot Heath.
* A valley which the West Overton–Alton road runs through was called Wodnes-denu which means "Woden's Valley".
* Wonston, Hampshire – "Woden's Town".
* Woodbridge, Suffolk – Wodenbrycge ("Woden's Bridge").
* Woodnesborough- also translates as "Woden's burgh", the centre of the town was known as "Woden's hill".
* Woodway House – from the house on Woden's Way.
* Wormshill – also derived from "Woden's hill".
* Grimsdyke – from "Grim", which means both "hooded" and "fierce", another name used for Woden.
** Grim's Ditch – a 5–6 mile section on the Berkshire Downs, the chalk escarpment above the Oxfordshire villages of Ardington, Hendred and Chilton.
** Grim's Ditch (Harrow) – also known as Grimsdyke. A section of Anglo-Saxon era trenches in Harrow. Frederick Goodall's house Grim's Dyke and a local school are named after the area.
** Grim's Ditch (Hampshire) – another set of earthworks.
** Grim's Ditch (South Oxfordshire) – Iron Age/early Roman era earthworks in Oxfordshire.
* Grimes Graves
* Grimsbury, Oxfordshire.
* Grimsbury Castle, Berkshire – hillfort occupied at least between the 3rd and 2nd Centuries B.C. Named after Woden by the Saxons.
* Grimley, Worcestershire – from the Old English "Grimanleage", which means "the wood or clearing of Grim (Woden)"
* Grimspound – an Iron Age settlement on Dartmoor.
* Grimscote – a village in Northamptonshire, "Grim's Cott"
* Grimsthorpe – a village in Lincolnshire, "Grim's Thorpe"
* Roseberry Topping – Óðins bjarg ("Odin's rock or crag", plus "topping" added later).
* The ford on the River Irwell which Regent's Bridge, Ordsall, now crosses, was traditionally called "Woden's Ford" and a nearby cave (no longer extant) was known as "Woden's Den".

### Scotland

* Edin's Hall Broch, Berwickshire, sometimes Odin's Hall Broch and originally Wooden's (Woden's) Hall
* Grim's Dyke – another term used for the Antonine Wall
* Woden Law – "Woden Hill", an Iron Age hillfort in the Cheviot Hills very close to the border with Northumberland.

## Outside Europe
### Australia

* Woden Valley, a district of Canberra.

### Canada

* Mount Odin, on Baffin Island Nunavut.
* Mount Odin, British Columbia

### United States

* Odin, Illinois
* Odin, Minnesota
* Odin, Missouri
* Odin, Pennsylvania, in Potter County, PA.
* Woden, Iowa
* Woden, Texas, an unincorporated community in Nacogdoches County.