The Danish History, Books I–IX

Oller

Also known as: Wulder · Role: successor to Odin · First appears: Book Three · Part 7

Life events

  • The gods exiled Odin and put Oller in his place.(Book Three · Part 7 · 📍 Byzantium)
    • With: Odin
    • “So, not wishing Odin to drive public religion into exile, they exiled him and put one Oller (Wulder?) in his place, to bear the symbols not only Of royalty but also of godhead, as though it had been as easy a task to create a god as a king.”
  • Oller was given the name of Odin.(Book Three · Part 7)
    • “Also, to omit no circumstance of greatness, they further gave his the name of Odin, trying by the prestige of that title to be rid of the obloquy of innovation.”
  • Odin drove Oller out of Byzantium, and Oller retired into Sweden.(Book Three · Part 8 · 📍 Byzantium)
    • With: Odin
    • “Thus Oller was driven out from Byzantium by Odin and retired into Sweden.”
  • The Danes slew Oller.(Book Three · Part 8 · 📍 Sweden)
    • “Here, while he was trying, as if in a new world, to repair the records of his glory, the Danes slew him.”

Book Three · Part 7

  • rivals with Odin (Oller was put in Odin's place.) “So, not wishing Odin to drive public religion into exile, they exiled him and put one Oller (Wulder?) in his place, to bear the symbols not only Of royalty but also of godhead, as though it had been as easy a task to create a god as a king.”

Book Three · Part 8

  • enemies with Odin “Thus Oller was driven out from Byzantium by Odin and retired into Sweden.”

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