Saxo Grammaticus: Danmarks Krønike (Gesta Danorum) - tr. Frederik Winkel Horn (Danish) - illust. Louis Moe (1898)
A nithing pole (Old Norse: níðstang), sometimes normalized as nithstang or nidstang, was a pole used for cursing an enemy in Germanic pagan tradition (nīþ, nith).
the pole. The nithingpole was directed towards the enemy and target of the curse. The curse could be carved in runes on the pole. A nithingpole event...
social stigma implying the loss of honour and the status of a villain. Nithingpole National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur Norwegian School of Information...
kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law NithingpoleNīþ Norse clans Old Norse Thing Thrall Events Æsir–Vanir War Fimbulwinter...
accounts refer to the body or head of the slaughtered animal being hung on a pole or tree. In addition to seasonal festivals, an animal blót could take place...
kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law NithingpoleNīþ Norse clans Old Norse Thing Thrall Events Æsir–Vanir War Fimbulwinter...
kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law NithingpoleNīþ Norse clans Old Norse Thing Thrall Events Æsir–Vanir War Fimbulwinter...
kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law NithingpoleNīþ Norse clans Old Norse Thing Thrall Events Æsir–Vanir War Fimbulwinter...
kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law NithingpoleNīþ Norse clans Old Norse Thing Thrall Events Æsir–Vanir War Fimbulwinter...
kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law NithingpoleNīþ Norse clans Old Norse Thing Thrall Events Æsir–Vanir War Fimbulwinter...
kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law NithingpoleNīþ Norse clans Old Norse Thing Thrall Events Æsir–Vanir War Fimbulwinter...
When he was driven from Norway into exile in Iceland, he erected a nithingpole (níðstang) to frighten the Norwegian land wights and thus bring bad luck...
kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law NithingpoleNīþ Norse clans Old Norse Thing Thrall Events Æsir–Vanir War Fimbulwinter...
kingship Hird Holmgang Leidang Mead hall Medieval Scandinavian law NithingpoleNīþ Norse clans Old Norse Thing Thrall Events Æsir–Vanir War Fimbulwinter...
The area which would become Scotland was at this time close to the south pole. During the Silurian period (439–409 Ma), the area which became Scotland...
goes that the King's Captain of the Guard then finished off the Earl with a pole axe. The body was thrown from the window into a garden below, where it was...
the New Hamburg Bypass. It travels south of New Hamburg and crosses the Nith River before becoming a divided four-lane freeway near Baden. At Trussler...
across the City of Plymouth and Ivybridge. Winds brought down an electricity pole in Millbrook, Cornwall. Ireland's flooding shifted to the east of the country...
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