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Promise of Odin (The)

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The most binding of all promises to a Scandinavian. In making this promise the person passed his hand through a massive silver ring kept for the purpose; or through a sacrificial stone, like that called the “Circle of Stennis.”

“I will bind myself to you … by the promise of Odin, the most sacred of our northern rites.”—Sir W. Scott: The Pirate, chap. xxii.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Promise of Odin (The)
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