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Swedish
Etymology
From Icelandic Alfaðir, from Old Norse Alfǫðr.
Proper noun
Allfader c
- (Norse mythology) All-Father
1887, Kata Dalström, “Tors strid med Rungne”, in Nordiska gudasagor berättade för barn och ungdom, Z. Haeggströms förlagsexpedition, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 2025-02-13, page 272:Rungne sporde: »Hvad är du för en man, som rider genom luften, och hvad bringar dig till mina salar?» Odn svarade: »Asarne kalla mig Allfader, och hit har jag kommit att skåda din boning».- Hrungnir asked: "What kind of a man are you, who rides through the air, and what brings you to my halls?" Odin answered: "The Æsir call me All-Father, and here I have come to behold your dwelling."
2017 June 21, Sandra Divinyi, “Förre nazistledarens "predikan" – efter bombdåden”, in Göteborgs-Posten, archived from the original on 2024-02-23:På en inspelning har Säpo kunnat höra nazistledarens "predikan" där han uttrycker att judar och muslimer borde vara rädda för dem: "Ååh du Allfader Oden. Vi ska ta tillbaka vårt land", säger han bland annat.- On a recording, Säpo was able to hear the Nazi leader's "sermon" where he expresses that Jews and Muslims should be afraid of them: "Oh you, All-Father Odin. We will take back our country," he says among other things.
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