Nithing pole

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).


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