"gallows god" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 20:",
          "text": "It is from this tree that Odin hanged himself in sacrifice, making the world-tree a gallows and himself the gallows god.",
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        "A byname for the God Odin, so called for being hanged on the world tree Yggdrasil."
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        "(Norse mythology) A byname for the God Odin, so called for being hanged on the world tree Yggdrasil."
      ],
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  "word": "gallows god"
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        "(Norse mythology) A byname for the God Odin, so called for being hanged on the world tree Yggdrasil."
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