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To be updated continuously as I find footnotes I should remember.

1. A man hid his name from his enemy, because in olden times it was believed that the word of a dying man might have great power if he cursed his foe by name.
2. Fey - Doomed to Die - the idea of an inevitable but unknown fate seems to have been practically universal through out the pre-Christian period.

Definition - A part of the soul that can be seen as the function of "divine madness." Wode can lead to the heights of artistic and intuitive inspiration, and can also lead to berserker-frenzy or other manifestations of apparent madness and/or psychic overdrive. The effects of moving totally into the wode-part of one's being are generally temporary in nature, and are usually followed by a period of great weakness or unconsciousness. Generally Odin is the bringer of wode, which is often accomplished by a draught of his "mead of inspiration," Odhroerir. He is considered the patron of those who are inspired by wode, such as poets and berserks.