gallows god

English

Noun

gallows god (plural gallows gods)

1. (Norse mythology) A byname for the God Odin, so called for being hanged on the world tree Yggdrasil.
   • 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 20:

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