WODENSMANTHE HISTORICAL ODIN PROJECTPLACES & SOURCES
Compare possible routes and explore the locations in the investigation. Switch each route on or off, then select a place or route to read its sources and what remains uncertain.
COMPARE POSSIBLE ROUTES
The post-Nedao hypothesis follows the mid-fifth-century upheaval. Procopius’s Heruli journey belongs to the early sixth century. Switch routes on or off to compare them.
9 EVIDENCE ENTRIES
All dashed lines are schematic. For the Heruli, the named peoples and destination follow Procopius; their plotted locations and the connecting path are approximate. The post-Nedao northward route is a separate hypothesis.
North Pontic and Caucasus world
Core investigation · c. 250–550 CE
The investigation begins with the political and cultural world north of the Black Sea and around the Caucasus.
This is a proposed setting for mobile elites and memories that might later enter northern traditions.
A suitable historical setting does not establish that Odin lived there. The corridor is a model to investigate.
Dates refer to the evidence or its proposed context, as labelled. A medieval source’s date is not the date of the events it describes.