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Which gods received toasts during the Norwegian sacrificial feast described in the sagas?
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Germanic religion and mythology
Battle scenes and ships depicted on a memorial stone from Gotland, Sweden, late 8th century. In the third panel from the top, a warrior is being hanged in a tree as a sacrifice to Odin, whose cult is represented by an eagle and a twisted knot.
In the context of Germanic religion and mythology, the sagas describing sacrificial feasts in Norway record that toasts were drunk to three specific gods:
During these feasts, all kinds of cattle were slaughtered, and the blood was sprinkled both inside and outside the sacrificial site before the meat was consumed as part of the ritual.1