Ull, The Enigmatic Forgotten God of... Skiing?? (Norse Mythology)

In Norse mythology, Ullr (Old Norse: [ˈulːz̠]) is a god associated with archery. Although literary attestations of Ullr are sparse, evidence including relatively ancient place-name evidence from Scandinavia suggests that he was a major god in earlier Germanic paganism. Proto-Germanic *wulþuz ("glory") appears to have been an important concept of which his name is a reflex; as owlþu-, the word appears on the 3rd-century Thorsberg chape.

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