Odin hanging from the World Tree by Emil Doepler 1905

"I know that I hung on a windy tree
nine long nights,
wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin,
myself to myself,
on that tree of which no man knows
from where its roots run."

-Hávamál, Stanza 138

Emil Doepler illustration from Walhall: Die Götterwelt der Germanen (The Gods of the Teutons) 1905

Detail

Source:

https://boudicca.de/site/de/gmedia-album/emil-doepler/

http://www.germanicmythology.com/works/DOEPLERART.html

 

Quote:

https://notendur.hi.is/haukurth/norse/reader/runatal.html