Godoin and Peron

Incidentally, if you look at that list of “rulers” in the Gotha Codex version of the Origo Gentis Langobardorum what we are told essentially is that the first ruler of the Langobards was Godoin which, surely, is Odin. After Godoin/Odin, there came Peron.

Note that this is a later version of the Origo where “Wotan” has been removed and replaced with “Provenance.” But it seems, perhaps, he survived the editing as a Langobard king.

Note that this also explains the Polish “Gody”, traditionally, a spring ritual but more generally and originally any holiday.

For more of the First (Odin/Yas) and Second (Wtor/Peron) see here. These names also show up in the Cosmography of Aethicus Ister.