freki is a wolf that often commutes with odin
a portion of thorwalds cross a partly surviving runestone erected at kirk andreas on the isle of man depicts a bearded human holding a spear downward at a wolf his right foot in its mouth and a large bird on his shoulder
under the trifunctional hypothesis of georges dumzil odin is assigned one of the core functions in the indoeuropean pantheon as a representative of the first function sovereignty corresponding to the hindu varua fury and magic as opposed to tr who corresponds to the hindu mitr law and justice while the vanir represent the third function fertility