He is ironic and scornful, but without the kindly, naive fun of the Icelander.
The most active god, the Dane's chief god (as Frey is the Swede's god, and patriarch), is "Woden".

He appears in heroic life as patron of great heroes and kings.Cf.

"Hyndla-Lay", where it is said of Woden:-- "Let us pray the Father of Hosts to be gracious to us! He granteth and giveth gold to his servants, He gave Heremod a helm and mail-coat, And Sigmund a sword to take.
He giveth victory to his sons, to his followers wealth, Ready speech to his children and wisdom to men.
Fair wind to captains, and song to poets; He giveth luck in love to many a hero." He appears under various disguises and names, but usually as a one-eyed old man, cowled and hooded; sometimes with another, bald and ragged, as before the battle Hadding won; once as "Hroptr", a huge man skilled in leechcraft, to Ragnar's son Sigfrid.
Often he is a helper in battle or doomer of feymen.

As "Lysir", a rover of the sea, he helps Hadding.

As veteran slinger and archer he helps his favourite Hadding; as charioteer, "Brune", he drives Harald to his death in battle.