gallows god

noun

A byname for the God Odin, so called for being hanged on the world tree Yggdrasil.

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Meanings

noungallows god (plural gallows gods)

plural gallows gods

  1. Norsehuman sciencesA byname for the God Odin, so called for being hanged on the world tree Yggdrasil.

    It is from this tree that Odin hanged himself in sacrifice, making the world-tree a gallows and himself the gallows god.

    2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 20
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