BLOOD EAGLE

Updated 05-May-2020.

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The Vengeance of Ivarr the Boneless: Did he, and other Vikings, really use a brutal method of ritual execution called the “blood eagle”?

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the blood eagle is a ritual method of execution, detailed in late skaldic poetry . there is continuing debate about whether the rite was a literary invention . the primary versions share certain commonalities: the bloody eagle is referred to by the 11th-century poet Sigvatr órarson . he wrote a skaldic verse that establishes Ivar the sighvatr’s skaldic verse is a common medium of norse poets . the idiomatic nature of the poem as a description of what has become known as the blood ea no contemporary accounts of the rite exist . the scant references in the sagas are several hundred years after the Christianization of Scandinavia . she compared the lurid details of the blood eagle to Christian martyrdom tracts . she suggests tales of martyrdom inspired further exaggeration of misunderstood skaldic verse