Odin and the Horned Spear Dancer

Viking and AngloSaxon artwork often includes a man with bird shaped horns. This mysterious figure is known as the horned man or the weapon dancer. The motif shows up in various different contexts and over a huge geographic range and timeframe from early AngloSaxon England to Viking age Russia. It is commonly associated with the cult of the Nordic god Odin or the AngloSaxon god Woden and with extraordinary shamanic rituals as I shall explain in this video. Sources: Mortimer, Paul, What Colour a God s