page_title: Ullr
section_title: Gesta Danorum
hierarchical_section_title: Ullr / Literary tradition / Gesta Danorum
caption_attribution_description: The magician Holler (also called Ull) stands on a bone from an animal. With help of this and the stick over his left shoulder he is able to travel across the seas. The stick seems to produce the necessary winds. On the shore (perhaps Iceland) a knight on a horse and a princess in a window.
context_page_description: In early Germanic paganism, *Wulþuz appears to have been an important concept, perhaps personified as a god, or an epithet of an important god; it is continued in Old Norse tradition as Ullr, a god associated with archery.
context_section_description: In Saxo Grammaticus' 12th century work Gesta Danorum, where gods appear euhemerized,  Ollerus is described as a cunning wizard with magical means of transportation:
  Fama est, illum adeo praestigiarum usu calluisse, ut ad traicienda maria osse, quod diris carminibus obsignavisset, navigii loco uteretur nec eo segnius quam remigio praeiecta aquarum obstacula superaret.
  The story goes that he was such a cunning wizard that he used a certain bone (probably a sledge or similar conveyance), which he had marked with awful spells, wherewith to cross the seas, instead of a vessel; and that by this bone he passed over the waters that barred his way as quickly as by rowing.– Elton's translation
  When Odin was exiled, Ollerus was chosen to take his place. Ollerus ruled under the name Odin for ten years until the true Odin was called back.
caption: Ollerus traverses the sea on his magic bone. 16th century woodcut
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