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Odin’s self-hanging

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Odin’s self-hanging

The Norse episode of Odin hanging on the tree to win the runes. Not yggdrasil as a place alone, and not rune as a letter alone.

Norse tradition

Odin’s self-hanging appears in Norse tradition.
Hávamál in the Poetic Edda seats Óðinn hanging on the windy tree to take up the runes. A named self-hanging episode in that poem, not yggdrasil as place alone and not rune as letter alone.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Odin’s self-hanging appears in Poetic Edda.
The self-hanging rune-winning episode is carried in Hávamál inside the Poetic Edda. A named episode’s presence in that corpus, not yggdrasil alone and not a second tradition-membership pad.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
appears in · sourced · documented

sources

Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.