> there's a ton of jewish influence in norse myth this happens because nordic paganism, specifically the cult of odin, was developed after christianity. no wonder why they share some common stuff, such as odin being crucified. the gods are very old but the nordic myths are new. the pagan north was an oral culture; they did not have literature prior to christianity. and no, magic incantations carved onto weapons are not "literature." the principal deities of the germanic peoples have obvious indo-european cognates and correlates within the standard ie religious system; thor, tyr, freyja, etc, whereas odin does not have a divine archetype correlate, because his character is a foreign intrusion, and his name derives from the word for madness, from which is derived the dual concepts of drunkenness and berserkers in the germanic languages (though there are fringe theories that the german version of odin's name - votan/wotan - is derived from the common greek name photinus, or which derives from pie rud-, which gave rise to the vedic rudra, a minor form of shiva, related to the english word "rude" and means "to cry, howl", and all that stuff about madness is backformation). no mention of the name odin or an equivalent (uthinn, woden, wotan, etc) appears before the 5th century ad, and the few appearances it does have do not correspond to gods, but to kings, as the stamps of coins or in the genealogies of men attest. the earliest reference to odin as a god occurs in the 7th century, among the english and lombards as woden, and the earliest reference amongst the norse or danes is not found until the end of the 8th century or beginning of the 9th century when the vikings first started raiding christian communities in the north sea.
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