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gallows gods

gallows gods is the plural of gallows god.

Meaning of gallows god

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

Questions about gallows gods

What is gallows gods the plural of?
Gallows gods is the plural of gallows god.

Words near gallows gods in the dictionary

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

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