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Poetic Edda, Grimnismol 46-48 (Bellows trans.)

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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.

set against Revelation 19:12-13

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