Odin is a god of knowledge before he is a god of war, and the striking thing about him is that he never simply has knowledge. He buys it, every time, and the price is always steep.
An eye, given to drink from the well of wisdom. Nine nights hanging on the world tree, wounded by his own spear, to win the runes. He is a god who keeps mutilating himself in exchange for understanding.
That is unusual. Most mythologies give their chief god power as a birthright.
Two wolves, Geri and Freki, and two ravens, Huginn and Muninn, whose names mean thought and memory.
The ravens fly out over the world each day and return to tell him what they saw, and one surviving verse has him admit he fears they might not come back. The wolves get everything at his table; he takes only wine.
A god who worries about losing his memory and gives his food away is a stranger figure than the helmeted warrior version.
All four are on the pendant. Odin's face is at the centre, bearded and open mouthed, with a raven perched at each upper corner, head turned in and one wing sweeping down the side of his head. The two wolves fill the lower half, one to each side in profile, muzzles meeting at the base. The surface is polished bright and the recesses in the feathers and the fur are darkened, so the four of them separate from the face rather than crowding it.
Our article on Norse wolves covers more. See wolf jewelry.
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