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50 free Odin trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Odin is the one-eyed All-father of Norse mythology, god of war, death, poetry and frenzy, who rules from Asgard, sends his ravens across the world each dawn and is fated to be swallowed by a wolf. This quiz starts with the things most people know (the eye, the ravens, the eight-legged horse, the hall of the slain) and asks exactly what the sources say about them: which well took his eye, what the ravens' names mean, who the horse's mother was, and what Odin himself lives on. It then follows him through the Eddas and sagas and out into history: the murder of Kvasir and the theft of the mead of poetry, the pickled head of Mímir, the wall-builder's stallion, the spear Gungnir and the ring Draupnir, the wife his brothers shared, the Roman who called him Mercury, the bracteate that first names him, the kings who claimed him as ancestor, and the weekday, opera, comic book and video game villain that carry his name. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on Odin and the figures and objects around him, and each question shows the sentence that supports it. Try our Norse mythology, Thor and Zeus quizzes next.
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Q 01Odin is usually described as having only one eye; what did he give the other one up for?
Wisdom
He left it in the spring Mímisbrunnr, where Mímir drinks mead every morning.
Q 02What are the names of the two ravens that bring Odin news of the world?
Huginn and Muninn
The wolves are Geri and Freki; Ask and Embla are the first humans; Vili and Vé are his brothers.
Q 03Roughly what do the names of Odin's two ravens mean?
Thought and memory
In Grímnismál a disguised Odin admits he fears more for the second bird's return than the first's.
Q 04Odin's horse Sleipnir is remarkable for having how many legs?
Eight
It is called the best of all horses and is sometimes ridden all the way to Hel.
Q 05Which god gave birth to Odin's eight-legged horse, having taken the form of a mare?
Loki
The sire was the stallion Svaðilfari, which hauled stone for the giant who was building Asgard's wall.
Q 06Odin's wife is which goddess?
Frigg
With her he fathered Baldr; Thor's mother was the earth-goddess Jörð.
Q 07Odin and his brothers created the world by slaying which primordial being?
Ymir
They then gave life to the first two humans, Ask and Embla.
Q 08In which hall does Odin receive the warriors slain in battle?
Valhöll
Its name means Hall of the Slain; the other half of the battle-dead go to Freyja's Fólkvangr.
Q 09What are Odin's chosen slain warriors called?
Einherjar
They will march out of the hall's many doors at Ragnarök to fight beside Odin.
Q 10The hall of the slain is described as having a roof thatched with what?
Shields
Its rafters are spear-shafts, and coats of mail lie over the benches.
Q 11The warriors in Odin's hall feast every day on the flesh of Sæhrímnir, a beast that is what?
Whole again each night
In the Prose Edda it is described as a boar.
Q 12Odin himself needs no food; what is the only thing he consumes?
Wine
He gives all the food on his table to his wolves Geri and Freki.
Q 13From which throne can Odin see over all worlds and every man's activity?
Hlidskjalf
The silver Odin from Lejre figurine is thought to show him seated on it, flanked by his ravens.
At the end of the world, which monstrous wolf swallows Odin?
Q 21The earliest clear reference to Odin, on a Vindelev Hoard bracteate, dates to which century?
The 400s
Its Proto-Norse runes read 'He is Odin's man'.
Q 22What did the Winnili become known as after the god saw their women with hair around their faces, per Lombard legend?
Long-beards
Frea had turned his bed to face east so he would see them first at sunrise and grant them victory.
Q 23Adam of Bremen described Odin's statue at Uppsala flanking which 'mightiest' god's throne?
Thor
The third figure was 'Fricco', and priests were assigned to each god to offer sacrifices.
Fenrir
His son Víðarr avenges him by stabbing the wolf in the heart.
Q 15Which son of Odin avenges his father's death by stabbing the wolf in the heart?
Víðarr
The völva of Völuspá foretells the whole sequence to Odin himself.
Q 16Odin's name derives from a Proto-Germanic word meaning 'lord of' what?
Frenzy
Adam of Bremen put it bluntly in Latin: 'Wodan, id est furor'.
Q 17Which day of the week is named after Odin (Woden) in English?
Wednesday
It is a calque of the Latin 'day of Mercury', which is why French has mercredi.
Q 18Roman writers identified Odin with which of their own gods?
Mercury
Thor was matched with Hercules and Týr with Mars; the link was probably Mercury's role as guide of the dead.
Q 19More than how many names are recorded for Odin, the most of any Germanic god?
170
The Prose Edda's Grímnismál alone reels off dozens; Wagner's 'Wotan' is a spelling of his own invention.
Q 20In Der Ring des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner calls the god by what name?
Wotan
He blended Old High German Wuotan with Low German Wodan.
Q 24Woden appears as an ancestor in how many of the eight Old English royal genealogies?
Seven
Only Essex traced its line to Saxnot instead; some pedigrees run Woden's ancestry back to Noah.
Q 25The 10th-century Second Merseburg Incantation calls on Odin and other gods to heal what?
A horse
Migration Period bracteates may likewise show Odin and his birds in a veterinary role.
Q 26Which Irish missionary reportedly disrupted an offering of beer to Odin in 7th-century Swabia?
Columbanus
Jonas of Bobbio recorded the episode, noting that others called the god Mercury.
Q 27The Poetic Edda poem Hávamál, 'Sayings of the High One', consists entirely of what?
Wisdom verse attributed to Odin
It ranges from advice on drinking in moderation to Odin's memory of eighteen charms and his self-sacrifice on the tree.
Q 28Odin's self-sacrifice by hanging in Hávamál took place on which tree?
Yggdrasil
The name means 'Ygg's steed', Ygg being Odin, and the hanged were said to 'ride' the gallows.
Q 29In Völuspá, which three gods find Ask and Embla and give life to the first humans?
Odin, Hœnir and Lóðurr
The Prose Edda instead credits Odin and his two brothers, Vili and Vé.
Q 30In the Æsir–Vanir War, Odin began the first war in the world by doing what?
Flinging his spear into the enemy
The peace was sealed with an exchange of hostages that went badly wrong.