were
regularly
put to
death by
hanging or
by a
combination
of hanging
and
stabbing,
the man
being
strung up
to a tree
or a
gallows
and then
wounded
with a
spear.
Hence Odin
was called
the Lord
of the
Gallows or
the God of
the
Hanged,
and he is
represented
sitting
under a
gallows
tree.
Indeed he
is said to
have been
sacrificed
to himself
in the
ordinary
way, as we
learn from
the weird
verses of
the
Havamal,
in which
the god
describes
