They tried to justify it by deciding that Odin was originally a human chieftain who got deified after death, essentially euhemerism.
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In the early Middle Ages, many ruling dynasties in Northern Europe claimed descent from Odin and took the claim so seriously that even after they converted to Christianity, they refused to remove him from royal chronicles
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