Óðinn (Old Norse: ᚢᚦᛁᚾ/ᚮᚦᛂᚾ [ˈoːðenː], meaning "the mad one"), anglicised as Odin (/ˈoʊdɪn/), is a widely revered god. In Norse mythology, from which stems most surviving information about the god, Óðinn is associated with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and is the husband of the goddess Frigg. He is the King of Ásgarðr and is also the chief ruler (the Allfather) of the Æsir (the main pantheon of Norse gods) in Norse mythology. Óðinn is compared to Mercury by Tacitus. In wider Germanic mythology and paganism, Óðinn was known in Old English as Wōden (Ƿōden), in Old Saxon as Wōdan (ᚹᛟᛞᚨᚾ), and in Old High German as Wuotan or Wōtan, all stemming from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic theonym *wōđanaz (ᚹᛟᛞᚨᚾᚨᛉ).