odin is often accompanied by a wolf
one of the solomon and saturn poems is additionally in the style of later old norse material featuring odin such as the old norse poem vafrnisml featuring odin and the jtunn vafrnir engaging in a deadly game of wits
in the 12th century centuries after norway was officially christianised odin was still being invoked by the population as evidenced by a stick bearing a runic message found among the bryggen inscriptions in bergen norway