> The research materials (such as reading notes and photocopies of published work) I used when working on my book are currently in storage and are not readily accessible to me. This is also true of much of my library. In addition, I will point out that more than thirty years has elapsed since I completed the writing, and as a result no longer remember little bibliographic details. So, unfortunately, there is no way I can answer your question. If I had to make a guess it would be that my source was Thorkil Vanggaard’s book, Phallos: A Symbol and Its History in the Male World, but that is just a guess.

> In my further search of material on the internet I found a passage in the Havamal (in the Poetic Edda) that may have relevance. It concerns the nine days and nights that Odin hung on the Tree (Yggdrasil), stabbed with his own spear, sacrificing himself to himself. No one gave him anything to eat or drink. He peered down and lifted the runes. He learned nine songs from the son of Bale-thorn. In paragraph 139, he says, “I drank a measure of the wondrous Mead, with the Soulstirrer’s drops I was showered.” The next paragraph say, “Ere long I bare fruit...”. Bearing fruit might be considered the result of a kind of pregnancy created by the ingestion of seminal fluid. Some translations of this section of the havamal have Odin speaking of having been fertilized. Saxo Grammaticus the Danish historian of the late 12th-early thirteenth centuries, says that Odin was exiled because his assumption of a woman’s work was highly scandalous. This work could well have included being the receiver of semen.

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