blood eagle

Blood Eagle officers were noblemen, but even they weren't courtiers.

Ella was taken captive and in revenge they carved the blood eagle on him.

A Blood Eagle ran back to them and called, "Your highness?

It was branded on the backside of his eyes, carved there like a blood eagle, so that even shutting them was no relief.

And Germanic rites and customs of the Viking period, it should be noted, included such barbaric practices as the blood eagle.

Some have suggested that the blood eagle was never actually practiced, arguing that such accounts are based upon unsupported folklore or upon inaccurate translations.

In the Hannibal episode "Coquilles" (1.4), the blood eagle execution is presented as a theory for the form of murder/torture of the victims.

"This is the worst yet," Inigo said, and then he jumped back, because behind a pale glass case, a blood eagle was actually eating what looked like an arm.

They vowed to torture every Dalcassian to death and rip out their lungs to leave atop their torsos, forming the Viking "blood eagle."

Some credit the Gotland picture stones as archaeological evidence attesting to the authenticity of the blood eagle as presented in Norse literary traditions.

A torture almost exactly similar to the Blood Eagle is utilized by the Norse-inspired Warriors of Chaos in the Warhammer games and novels.

Ælla was captured, and when the brothers were to decide how to give Ælla his just punishment, Ivar suggested that they carve the "blood eagle" on his back.

"The problem there is that if he had angered some practicing Norse pagan cult, they'd have either hung him from an oak, or performed something on him called the 'blood eagle.'"

One, Harald's son Halfdan Haleg, met his end in Orkney at the hands of Jarl Torf-Einarr, who reputedly performed the blood eagle on him.

The Blood eagle is a torture method where a person is cut by the ribs from the spine, breaking the victims ribs so they resembled blood-stained wings, and having their lungs pulled out.

According to the stories, Ragnar was killed by Ælla, and the army which seized York in 866 was led by Ragnar's sons who avenged his death by subjecting Ælla to the blood eagle.

It is later revealed that she is an Imperial extremist who believes in the total eradication of all Tribals, although she seems to favor and use the Blood Eagle tribe, most likely, because of their former connection to the Empire.

Skaldic poetry, a common medium of Norse poets, was intentionally meant to be cryptic and allusive, therefore the idiomatic nature of Sighvatr's skaldic verse, describing what has become known as the blood eagle, is a matter of historical contention.

The fourth level was the kingdom of the most dangerous, the enemies of fear: the shrieking tarantula (the only spider capable of sound), the blood eagle (the only bird that thrived on human flesh), plus, in its own black pool, the sucking squid.

Refusing to renounce his religion, Edmund is said to have undergone horrific treatment, either used for target practice by Danish bowmen, or even more horribly made a 'blood eagle' sacrifice, his ribs separated from his spine and his lungs pulled from his living body.