Divinity presents a surplus of names and titles in public while the one operative name is withheld — concealment by multiplication in the Norse text, concealment by explicit sealing in the Greek, with public epithets issued as cover in both.
Odin, disguised, pours out roughly fifty aliases — 'Grim is my name, Gangleri am I, / Herjan and Hjalmberi...' — and states the rule outright: 'A single name have I never had / Since first among men I fared' (st. 48). The catalogue itself is the disguise.
The rider on the white horse wears 'many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself' — even as the text supplies public titles ('his name is called The Word of God,' 'KING OF KINGS').
Both passages stack names in list form and, inside the same breath, flag that the list is not the truth: Grimnismol 48 denies any single name was ever given out; Revelation 19:12 asserts a written name 'that no man knew' two verses before conferring three public titles. The structure — many names displayed, one name withheld — is identical.
Our fact-checkers corrected the first draft:
The incognito divine guest in a mortal house: the name is refused (or withheld) for the duration of the visit, and the moment of the name · asked for or finally spoken · coincides with fire, the god's departure, and mortal peril for the host.
The identical test, posed and failed: the world-encircling sea-serpent hooked from a small boat, drawn up just far enough for a face-to-face look, and then lost.
Encirclement as the serpent's resting posture: neither text has the serpent attack · Jormungandr simply lies around all the earth in the surrounding sea, mouth closed on his own tail; Ahi lies 'couched around the waters,' holding the goddesses 'encompassed.' In both, the coil is a form of custody · the serpent holds a whole category of the world (the dry earth, the celestial waters) enclosed within its ring, keeping rather than devouring, and the enclosure persists until an outside force (Ragnarok, the bolt) breaks it.
The age is killed by a superlative winter, and a hand-picked remnant is sealed inside a hidden enclosure · a walled garden, a wood · carrying the seed-stock of the world, to sleep out the gap and repeople the next age.