![]() (While I certainly never experienced something so sadistic and horrific as this, or even close to it, still maybe my own personal experiences color my perception here and I have not met many who could understand. I don't think that even any drugs we have today, short of putting him to sleep, would have done much more for him than that. I think the drugs merely keep the sacrifice, and the body itself, calm and subdued enough to make it through the ritual but he likely still felt great fear and excruciating pain while lacking the strength or will to fight it. I have no medical training or knowledge to draw from but first and foremost I would think it impossible for Borg to stay conscious during the ritual without being drugged as the shock from the pain alone would make him pass out, that would defeat the purpose and ruin the effect. I think it is possibly a standard practice in performing the rite, that everyone knew Borg was drugged and Ragnar himself sent Bjorn to give him the dose, as we have seen them use drugs to subdue sacrifices previously. I don't think in any way that Bjorn snuck around, stole drugs, went behind his father's back, trying to help Borg not feel any pain (as he most assuredly felt pain) as an act of mercy or kindness. I think I need to explain myself more clearly here. It was how Borg was able to not even need to be tied down or not to scream, so he can accept his fate as a warrior and enter Valhalla. The fact that he was a seer and a man provoked disgust in some quarters.I thought it was clear that Bjorn brought Borg food that drugged him for the blood eagle ritual, similar to how Athelstan was drugged for sacrifice when they went to Uppsala. But he was accused of “unmanly behaviour” when he “beat the drum and practised prophecy”, something that was associated with women. Odin is often portrayed as a charming man who enjoys drinking mead and wine. While his body lay in a trance, he could travel as a bird or a four-legged animal, a fish or a snake, through all the worlds and to far-off places. He could fall into an ecstatic trance and send out his soul, allowing him to adopt the form of another person or an animal. Odin was also a shapeshifter, meaning that he could change shape. The magical knowledge he gained made him able to cure the sick, calm storms, turn weapons against his attackers, make women fall in love and render dangerous troll women harmless – often just with a look. He then hanged himself in Yggdrasil, the tree of life, for nine days and nine nights in order to gain knowledge of other worlds and be able to understand the runes.ĭuring his sacrificial actions, he saw visions and received secret wisdom. He sacrificed his eye in Mimir’s well and he threw himself on his spear Gungnir in a kind of symbolic, ritual suicide. ![]() This was a desire that drove him to sacrifice himself. But he wanted to know everything and gain wisdom and knowledge of things hidden from him. ![]() Sitting on his throne, Hlidskjalf, with Frigg in the hall of Valhalla, Odin looked out across the whole world. Odin has a gold ring called Draupnir that is important to the gods. ![]() He learned the magical art of prophecy from Freyja. Sleipnir the eight-legged horse can run through all the worlds. His two ravens Hugin and Munin (thought and memory) fly around the world and report back what they see. He has two sons, Balder by his first wife Frigg and Thor by Jord. He is the one-eyed All-Father, who sacrificed his eye in order to see everything that happens in the world. Half of the warriors who die in battle are taken to his hall of Valhalla. Odin has many names and is the god of both war and death.
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