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Who worshipped odin?

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Writing in the thirteenth century, snorri-sturluson, the outstanding Icelandic scholar and statesman, thus endeavoured to account for the rise of Odin during the Viking period (750-1050), when the war god took over many of the functions of the sky god.

The Vikings for one, and before Christianity, many in Europe

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