Note 94 — Chapter II · THE MARK.
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Ἑρμῆς, in this one sense Mercurius, is identical with Wóden. Both invented letters; both are the wandering god; both are Odysseus. The name of Wóden is preserved in many boundary places, or chains of hills, in every part of England. See chap. xii. of this Book. The Wónác (Cod. Dipl. No. 495), the Wónstoc (ibid. Nos. 287, 657), I have no hesitation in translating by Wóden’s oak, Wóden’s post. Scyldes treów (ibid. No. 436) may also refer to Wóden in the form of Scyld, as Hnices þorn (ibid. No. 268) may record the same god in his form of Hnicor, or Hnic.