Brewer's: 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,” answered Frey; “but who, let me ask, is to undertake the feeding of the human animal?” —Keary: Heroes of Asgard , p.73.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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