A Oseberg tapestry fragment; a Viking artifact, of 834 CE ca, from the Oseberg burial, Norway. This piece of wool depicts a tree, with about 9 hanged men; interpreted as human sacrifices with a possible reference to the Odin & Yggdrasil myth. Cultural Hist. mus, Oslo, nr. C55000/377, 4 [2640 x 3300]

>”The Oseberg tapestry has a scene in which humans have been sacrificed by hanging in the World Tree as part of a major ritual drama…

>At the end of the branches on the holy tree at the Oseberg tapestry – the one with the hanged bodies – there are heads of horses, as if the tree itself is a horse. Yggdrasil in Old Norse means ‘Odin’s horse’.”

>*Lotte Hedeager, in Iron Age Myth and Materiality: An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000, 2011 [in* [*https://books.google.gr/books?id=MvOsAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT160#v=onepage&q&f=false*](https://books.google.gr/books?id=MvOsAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT160#v=onepage&q&f=false) *]*

photos: up the artifact, down a 1916 drawing by Sofie Krafft, via [https://www.unimus.no/portal/#/things/0d976aa8-e885-4635-82cc-dde3905f9971](https://www.unimus.no/portal/#/things/0d976aa8-e885-4635-82cc-dde3905f9971)