M&D - Tyburn Tree 'resurrections'

[bruce sublett]

Perhaps the prototype is Odin, who hangs nine days and nights from
Yggdrasill and is pierced by a spear, a sacrifice to himself.  In Kevin
Crossley-Holland's _The Norse Myths__ , chapter 4 is "Lord of the Gallows,"
Odin's account of the mysteries he learned by dying on the tree and
resurrecting himself.  In much Northern legend, the gallows is referred to
as "Odin's horse."

BS