Incidentally, despite him being married to Frigg a lot of these sons are from different mothers and Odin appears in many stories as a womaniser, even boasting of his affairs, reminiscent of (and perhaps inspired by?) Zeus from Greek mythology.
However Odin has numerous extramarital affairs, most famously his affair with Jord, with whom he fathered another prominent Norse God, Thor. There was also speculation that Odin had an affair with Sif, who as Thor's wife, and is actually the father of their child, Ullr.
Although Frigg loved Odin, she was known to have had an occasional affair. Odin was not a faithful husband, either; Frigg's rivals included Rind, Gunnlod, and Grid. Frigg was also a seeress who knew the future but never spoke of it, not even to Odin, though he knew she had this power.
In God of War Ragnarok, it is revealed that Odin has been obsessed with a mask and a tear in reality that he thinks will give him infinite knowledge, including how to beat fate.
Odin, God of Wisdom, Poetry and War, has at least five sons, by four different partners.
Frigg is the Queen of Asgard and the highest of the goddesses. Her home is called Fensalir, which means “hall of the marshlands”. She is married to Odin and her father is called Fjorgynn.
Odin's self-sacrifice
He sacrificed his eye in Mimir's well and he threw himself on his spear Gungnir in a kind of symbolic, ritual suicide. He then hanged himself in Yggdrasil, the tree of life, for nine days and nine nights in order to gain knowledge of other worlds and be able to understand the runes.
Is Odin Good or Evil? Odin, the god of wisdom, death, battle magic and more is neither entirely good nor is he fully evil in Norse mythology. Odin is a warmonger and as such a bringer of death on the battlefield. In contrast, Odin created the first humans from which all life was on Midgard (Earth).
Odin practiced seidr, a form of magic considered unmanly, and was the god of frenzy, betrayal and death (in addition to inspiration and wisdom). A particular obsession of his was the hoarding of knowledge, and he sent his servants, ravens nicknamed Thought and Memory, out into the world to bring him news.
Odin was a male god of berserkers and also of the out-of-body ecstasy usually associated with women's magic. He displays shamanistic characteristics through his journeys to various otherworlds in search of this wisdom.
Centuries ago, the Scandinavian people worshipped Odin. Today, nearly a thousand years later, he still serves as a vital spiritual beacon for modern followers.
When it comes to the topic of Odin from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans tend to unanimously agree that he was a bad father who enabled his children to become worse versions of themselves. He's blamed for Loki's turn toward villainy the most, with his death not redeeming the perception around him.
Odin is depicted as tall, wearing heavy cloaks, but is rather skinny, and even older than most depictions prior.
Though she cheated on him and loved many different men she was heartbroken when she found out he left Valhalla/Asgard because of her actions. She endlessly searches for him while still doing her duties as a goddess.
But Avengers 1,000,000 BC #1 reveals Odin was a selfish, arrogant brute of a king, and he revealed his villainous ways at the worst possible moment: his wedding day to the Phoenix.
He ordered his son Thor to commit genocide against the giants for suspecting them being the ones behind Ragnarök, and he also betrayed his own great grandfather, the primordial Jötunn Ymir, at the beginning of all things under the self-righteous belief that he and the Aesir were bringing order to the realms.
The majority of storylines surrounding Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe had to do with his father issues. He was always insecure over how Odin didn't love him as much as he did Thor, with this eventually morphing into contempt for his father.
Odin's abuse of both Loki and Thor, by contrast, is born of, at best, narcissism and at worst, malice. These are things that are less likely to change even if he could be made to see that his actions have been harmful.
The most famous of Odin's myths is how he lost his eye in seeking greater knowledge and discernment.
Odin has always been a character who knows the future and does his best to delay the inevitable bad stuff that he's foreseen, but the GoW character that we get to know has taken that to an extreme - he's become so paranoid by the knowledge of his eventual death that it's led him down a truly heinous path.
He is a hypocrite, in that he rescued Loki as a child in the hopes of brokering a peace with the Frost Giants, but soon decided that this plan was meaningless.
Described as an immensely wise, one-eyed old man, Odin has by far the most varied characteristics of any of the gods and is not only the man to call upon when war was being prepared but is also the god of poetry, of the dead, of runes, and of magic.
Odin has pretty clearly been shown to be demonstrable more powerful than the other gods. Odin's Odinforce has far outstripped anything Zeus's magical lightning bolts have ever done.
Odin was considered to be the chief of the gods. He was often found far away from Asgard, the kingdom of the gods, on long wanderings throughout the cosmos on trips that were purely for his own selfish reasons. He did not care about the most common human values of justice, fairness, or respect for law and customs.