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gallows god

gallows god noun: a byname for the God Odin, so called for being hanged on the world tree Yggdrasil.

Noun

gallows god (plural gallows gods)

  1. (Norse) A 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

Forms of gallows god

pluralgallows gods

Questions about gallows god

What does gallows god mean?
Gallows god means a byname for the God Odin, so called for being hanged on the world tree Yggdrasil.
What part of speech is gallows god?
Gallows god is a noun.
What is the plural of gallows god?
The plural of gallows god is gallows gods.

Words near gallows god in the dictionary

  1. gallows
  2. gallows bird
  3. gallows birds
  4. gallows frame
  5. gallows frames
  6. gallows god
  7. gallows gods
  8. gallows humor
  9. gallows humour
  10. gallows tree
  11. gallows trees

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