"Okay, baldy, you've got until the tide comes in. Make your case for this uber-metal man-god."

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1951983/okay-baldy-you-ve-got-until-the-tide-comes-in-make-your-case-for-this-uber-metal-man-go

Odin hung himself from a tree for nine days and nine nights, and pierced himself with a spear. He also ripped out his own eye.

It seems they’re both equally “metal”.

Why did he do that to himself?
Norse mythology points to the sacrifice being necessary to learn magic runes. As an obsessor of knowledge, in particular anything that could somehow help him to survive Ragnarok, Odin does a lot of things that are in the pursuit of that.

i really enjoy how odin is a kind of insane old power-hungry codger, much like how zeus is a massive raging shithead.

Then we have Väinämöinen, who’s a chiller wackier version of odin. He might steal your eyes or whatever but he’d probably end up feeling a bit bad about it.