The thunderer.[89] Father of ages. The wise walker. The lord. The helmet bearer. The cheerful. The loving one. The high one. The fickle. The true-guessing one. The evil-eyed. The manifold. The wise in beguiling. The much knowing. The father of victory. The father of the slain. The conqueror in fights. The entangler. The feared one. The rover. The serpent (from his being able to assume its shape). The soother. God of the hanged.[90] God of the ravens. God of victory. God of the Gautar. The shouting god. The one-eyed one. The fierce one. God of the earth. Friend of Mimir. The foe of the Fenrir-wolf. The lord of the spears. The god of hosts. The father of all. The wish-god. The wind-whispering. The burner. The wide-ruling. The work-skilled. The swift-riding. The god of battle. The almighty god. The host blinder. The true one. The long-bearded. The god of cargoes. The father of hosts. The useful adviser. The shaper of battle. The swift rider. “Then Thridi said: Odin is the highest and oldest of the Asar; he rules over everything, and, however mighty the other gods are, they all serve him as children a father. Frigg, his wife, knows the fates of men though she cannot prophesy. Odin is called Allfödr, because he is the father of all the gods; he is also called Valfödr, because all those who fall in battle (valr = the slain) are his chosen sons. These he places in Valhöll and Vingólf (a hall owned by the goddesses), and then they are called Einherjar. He is also called Hanga-gud (god of the hanged), Hapta-gud (god of the chained), and Farma-gud (god of cargoes), and he gave himself still more names when he was at King Geirröd’s. Gangleri said: ‘Wonderfully many names have you given to him, and surely it needs great wisdom to know the events which are the reasons of every one of these names.’ Hár answered: ‘Great wits are needed to explain this carefully, but, to tell it shortly, most of the names have been given because, as there are many different tongues in the world, every nation thinks it necessary to change his name according to their language, that they may invoke and pray to him for themselves. His journeys have given rise to some of these names, and they are told among people’” (Later Edda, c. 20).