Asa

was a term of address to all the gods of Gladsheim; as Asa Odin, Asa Thor, Asa Loki, Asa Tyr, etc.

“‘That’s all very well, Asa Odin,ʹ answered Frey; ‘but who, let me ask, is to undertake the feeding of the human animal?ʹ”—Keary: Heroes of Asgard, p. 73.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.