blood-eagle

None of them ever swung a battle axe in combat, and they would puke at their first sight of a blood-eagle.

Archive 2004-09-01 2004

It's capable of making speaker cones rip out of their sockets like a blood-eagle on a back.

moose versus mammoth: who survives? badger 2001

Foremost among these was the blood-eagle: Aenir victims were nailed to trees, their ribs splayed like tiny wings, their innards held in place with wooden strips.

The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

Twice they had stumbled on the tortured bodies of clansmen nailed to trees and splayed in the horrifying blood-eagle.

The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

For the slayer by a cruel death of their captive father, Ragnar's sons act the blood-eagle on Ella, and salt his flesh.

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

Odin; blood-eagle rite; worshipped by Norse in Britain;

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

In savagery there is not so very much to choose: it requires a calculus, not of morals but of manners, to distinguish accurately between carving the blood-eagle on your enemy and serving up your rival's heart as a dish to his mistress.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

Rinarsey or Rinansey (Ninian's Island) now North Ronaldsay, and seized him, cut a blood-eagle on his back, severed his ribs and pulled out his lungs, and, after offering him as a victim to Odin, buried his body there. [

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray