odin’s sacrifice, by pete white. 2000. woodcut.
“I know that I hung on a windy tree
nine long nights,
wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,
myself to myself,
on that tree of which no man knows
from where its roots run.
No bread did they give me nor a drink from a horn
downwards I peered;
I took up the runes, screaming I took them,
then I fell back from there”.
-rúnatal, from hávamál, trans. carolyne larrington.
I’m the idiot who forgot that the Havamal was collected in the Poetic Edda. Two of everything, please?
Gnostic amulet
- Near Eastern, Iranian, Persian, Sasanian, A.D. 226–651
- On one face a demon holding in each hand a staff surmounted by a cock, and with a serpent twisted around it. In the field a number of birds and animals. Surface not occupied with these figures covered with inscriptions.
- Count Michael Tyszkiewicz Collection; 1898: auction of the M. Tyszkiewicz Collection, Hotel des Commissaires-Priseurs, 9 rue Drouot, Paris, June 8-10, lot 251; 1898: with E. P. Warren; purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, 1898. (Accession date: Jan-01-1898)
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston
