Gothi
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Gothi or goði was a position of political and social prominence in the Icelandic Commonwealth. The term originally had a religious significance, referring to a pagan leader responsible for a religious structure and communal feasts, but the title is primarily known as a secular political title from medieval Iceland.
A depiction of a goði leading the people in sacrificing to Thor in this painting by J. L. Lund
Heathen hof
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A heathen hof or Germanic pagan temple is a temple building of Germanic religion. The term hof is taken from Old Norse.
Midvinterblot (1915) by Carl Larsson: King Domalde offers himself for sacrifice before the hof at Gamla Uppsala.
A woodcut depicting the Temple at Uppsala as described by Adam of Bremen, including the golden chain around the temple, the well and the tree, from Olaus Magnus' Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555).
The dig out with postholes of the assumed Viking age Hof at Ose in Ørsta, Norway
View of Urnes stave church by Axel Lindahl, 1880s, with the ancient portal in the north wall