>'Wode' as nominalized adj *wo:d might mean "the raging one",
die Wut "rage, fury"
< MHD & AHD wuot "Raserei"
< AHD wuot "rasend, unsinnig"
Goth wods "besessen, geisteskrank".
(source: Wahrig, Deutsches Wörterbuch)
So, Odin... "crazy"? :-)
> (der krieg ist) so ein wüetend doll ding,
> dasz auch die poeten dargeben,
> in von der Wüetesz her kommen sein
Wut > Wüterich, circa 1490: in a pamphlet (printed in Nuremberg
or Augsburg) about "Dracole wayda" a.k.a. Dracula (the Walachian
prince Vladislav):
''Ein wuenderliche vnd erschroeckenliche
hystori von einem großen wueterich genant
Dracole wayda...''
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Vlad_Tepes_-_Blatt_1.jpg
>Interesting also that the Wutes-heer is known only from southern
>Germany, old Helvetian territory.
Here some interesting texts regarding all these Wodan,
Wutesheer & furor teutonicus myths and legends in various
southern and middle areaas of the "Reich":
http://www.asawiki.de/index.php?title=Wut
Wutesheer = wilde Jagd = Odensjakt
(Perchta, Holla & Wodan)
http://www.asawiki.de/index.php?title=Wutesheer
http://www.asawiki.de/index.php?title=Das_w%c3%bcthende_Heer_bei_Wiesenthal_und_im_Erzgebirge
(Erzgebirge is sotospeak next-door neighbor to Lusacia as well
as to Bohemia.)
>BTW I'll posit two roots
>
>*wo:d-(j)u- -> Gmc. *wo:ðu, Slavic vodju "leader in war"
>
>and
>
>*wo:d-aÅ- -> Gmc. *wo:ð-an, Slavic voda "leader in war"
The Wüterich above, Dracula, was a "Wajde", i.e. a Wojwode
(voyvoda) (yet in his country his rank was above of that of a
"mere" Heeresführer, he was kind of Herzog).
George