The aim of Woden's Folk is to create a new folkish religion for the English, rooted in the worship of the old gods of England and the television series Robin of Sherwood.
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Two separate schools in the area, Deakin High School in Deakin and Woden Valley High School in Mawson, commenced in 1966 and 1968 respectively.
The manuscripts of Matthew Parker, and their dependent copies, preserve the following genealogy of Ælla: "Ælla was the son of Yffe, the son of Uxfrea, the son of Wilgisl, the son of Westerfalca, the son of Sæfugl, the son of Sæbald, the son of Segegeat, the son of Swebdæg, the son of Sigegar, the son of Wædæg, the son of Woden."
Coifi mounted a stallion and rode from the king's council (which according to local tradition was held at the royal summer encampment at Londsborough), to the Great temple of Woden at Goodmanham where he cast a spear into the altar before burning the temple to the ground, as the people watched and thought him mad.
Two graves from a well-preserved sixth and seventh-century Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Finglesham have yielded a bronze pendant and a gilt buckle with designs that are related to each other and may be symbolic of religious activity involving the Germanic deity Woden.
The village lies on the route of the Wansdyke (from Woden's Dyke) an early medieval or possibly defining an Roman boundary with a series of defensive linear earthworks, consisting of a ditch and a running embankment from the ditch spoil, with the ditching facing north.
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According to their singer, Dolk, their name is an ancient Norse battle cry which means Odin or Wotan.
Placenames like Wednesfield and Wednesbury perhaps suggest that the worship of Woden was particularly prominent, and that there was a cluster of late pagan practice near Birmingham: there are no surviving toponyms relating to Thunor, for example, although Tiw may be connected to Tyseley, Tysemere and Tysoe.
Mímisbrunnr, another well under Yggdrasil and the place of Wóden's ordeal
In 1886 a post office was established and the community was named Woden after the Old English deity Woden.