Mural "Wotan guard this house" Odin Wodan Allfather
Bark Slices - "Mural" with the Low German saying: "Wotan bewohr düt Huus" (in High German: "Wotan guard this house" / home)
Protective symbol, for hanging as wall decoration above the house / apartment / entrance door etc.
Written in approximately 800-year-old Heide-Platt (Lüneburg Heath and Aller region)
This was the territory of the West Germanic tribe of the "Dulgubnier," who later merged with the Lombards, who had immigrated from the Elbe region!
As descendants of the West Germanic tribes, we have deliberately written in the original language (and as Germans, we also write "Wotan" - not "Odin" as is common among Vikings)!
West Low German Plattdeutsch is a West Germanic language, also related to Frisian Plattdeutsch and the North Sea Germanic language - these originate from the Indo-European proto-language!
Heideplatt (West Germanic): "Wotan bewohr düt Huus" -
translated into High German: Wotan guard this house, or: Wotan protect this house.
Wotan or Wodan
Wotan or Wodan is translated as "fury." Oðr, Old Norse translated as "fury," also "cultic ecstasy" (God of Ecstasy) was the namesake for the North Germanic Odin and South Germanic Wotan.
The god was called "Wodan" in Old Franconian, "Wotan" or "Godan" in Lombardic, "Woden" in Saxon / Anglo-Saxon, and "Wuotan" in Old High German -
Father of the gods, god of war and death, god of poetry and runes, of magic and ecstasy.
Variants used among many others are: Wodan, Vodan, Vodams, Guodan, Gudan, Voden, Wuotan, as well as Óðin and Odinn.
Many epithets and nicknames are known: Allfather, Gunnarr, Gagnrad, Har, herfadir, Harbard (Graybeard), Herjann, Herteitr, Valfadir, Walvater, Wegtam
Odin (Norse Óðin, Odinn, South Germanic Wodan, Wotan, Wuotan, Wode, Old High German means the Furious), Atridi (the Rider); among Lombards Odan and Godan; North Frisian Wede, Wedke; Othan, Odon, Eovden; Low German Jivodan.
The Alder, a more than 3000-year-old tree and its meaning in mysticism:
- the alder is a PROTECTIVE TREE that grows in damp places and bogs - a ghost and death tree, consecrated / assigned to the god Wotan.
- the alder was considered a gate to Valhalla, to the world of gods and the dead
However, the alder also stands for protection and life-giving:
- Alder branches were hung over the cradle for newborns
- Alder branches were hung in the house and on the farm for protection
- Alder branches were also placed under the pillow for protection against nightmares
The Erlking (Ellerking = Wotan) led the alder women, elves or Valkyries.
the alder also Eller and Else translated:
- Old High German Erla, Elira, Eller = alder / Eller / Else
- Middle Low German Else
- Old Norse Elre
- English alder
- Anglo-Saxon alor
- Latin alnus (growing in damp places)
- Indo-European al (swamp, watering place)
Burned-in Wotan head with the saying "Wotan bewohr düt Huus"
Made from alder wood, sanded on both sides.
There is a drilled hole on the back for hanging the mural.
- Size: approx. 34 x 15 cm
- Thickness of the wooden plate approx. 22 mm
- Weight: approx. 450 - 650 g
Each mural is unique.
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