What does Odin mean? Odin [odin]â² as a boys' name is of Old Norse origin. Odin was the chief god of Norse mythology, identified with art and culture, war, and the dead. The Norse warriors known as Vikings fought without fear, believing Odin would receive them into Valhalla, the heroes' paradise, if they died in battle. Variations.
The discovery of this giant Armillaria ostoyae in 1998 heralded a new record holder for the title of the world's largest known organism, believed by most to be the 110-foot- (33.5-meter-) long, 200-ton blue whale.
John Zapell/US Forest Service. The largest organism on Earth probably isn't a whale or a giant octopus or anything else you might naturally think of first. It's a tree â or a group of genetically identical trees that stretches across more than 100 acres of Utah's Fishlake National Forest. Called Pando, which is Latin for âI spread, the group of quaking aspens is considered one of the largest â by area â and most massive living organisms on earth. The quaking aspen, found from coast to coast across North America, grows in groups called stands.