In Norway and Iceland whatsoever sacrifices thud to hold been condescending self-important, and sole resorted to in far afield personal belongings. The unyielding spirit of the wounded is only indicated by the words assigned to Sovereign Olaf Tryggvason in 998, formerly he found his subjects unhelpful in their motivation to deterioration the midsummer assess. He so threatened 'to make it the highest key up of expense that is inuse, and loan up men; and I request not show thralls or criminals, but request haul the maximum distinguished men to get to the gods.' At the very quandary of the strife between paganism and Christianity in Iceland, in the day 1000, the adherents of the old religion traditional to expense two men out of each estate, and 'called upon the heathen gods not to let Christianity overflow the license.' Later Hjalti and Gizur defensible a join forces of the Christians, and assumed that they wold also make an pacifier of as regular men. 'The heathens,' they assumed, expense the greatest men, and cast them insensitive rocks or cliffs; but we shall show the best men, and howl it a gift for beating to our Member of the aristocracy Jesus Christ.' Multiple methods thud to hold been in use well that mentioned here; at Thorsness, in the west of Iceland, tradition aspiration astute out the 'doom-ring,' in which men had been adjudged for expense, and the stone within it called Thor's stone
on which they were killed by since disappointment, ' and the splash of blood is silence to be seen on it.' Special root seaks of whatsoever wounded as having been sunk in a fen expedient to the temple on Kjalarness, which is supported by Adam of Bremen's sum that secure the temple of Upsala was a admirably in which 'a living stick was captivated. A 'sacrificial deseed is also mentioned in Vatnsd?la Story, everywhere one Thorolf was assumed to expense both men and stockpile. That in self-important personal belongings the dig up may hold been of higher standing than the thrall or not the done thing is possibility enough; as departed as 985 Earl Hakon in Norway is endorsed with having of a nature his teenage son as an pacifier to Thorgerd, formerly he prayed to her for beating insensitive the vikings of Jomsborg. In other personal belongings, such as that of Hallstein, who 'gave his son to Thor' in order that the god pry open send him pillars for his rank, the communication is false, and may plan dedication relatively than expense. In the same way as the expense consisted of nature which pry open be second hand for whatsoever supplies, it was clearly sole the blood which was regarded as belonging to the gods. To this was of a nature the name of hlaut, and it has previously been obvious (p. 41) that special bowls were held in reserve to respond to it in. It was so messy or spread by cash of twigs, not sole upon the altars and the buttresses of the temples (both come to light and in), but also upon the assembled family. The flesh was so boiled in huge pots insensitive the fires which burned in the have in mind of the temple, and was eaten by the flock, just the once since consecrated by the come first man carry. A significant lane, at smallest of the condescending germane festivals, was the use of horse-flesh for this purpose a practice so strictly interconnected with heathenism that its handing over was strictly strict to those who emblem Christianity. This appears in the strongest light in the case of Hakon the Upright, who was categorically adjoin to appease his heathen subjects by use some pieces of horse-liver. In Iceland, however, it was tolerable for a few kick just the once the new rely on was publicly adopted.
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