page_title: Phallus
section_title: Ancient Scandinavia
hierarchical_section_title: Phallus / Religion / Ancient Scandinavia
caption_attribution_description: English: Inside the Husavik phallus museum of Sigurður Hjartasson Deutsch: Ausstellungsraum des Phallusmuseums in Husavik
context_page_description: A phallus is a penis, an object that resembles a penis, or a mimetic image of an erect penis. In art history a figure with an erect penis is described as ithyphallic.
  Any object that symbolically—or, more precisely, iconically—resembles a penis may also be referred to as a phallus; however, such objects are more often referred to as being phallic. Such symbols often represent fertility and cultural implications that are associated with the male sexual organ, as well as the male orgasm.
context_section_description: The Norse god Freyr is a phallic deity, representing male fertility and love.
  The short story Völsa þáttr describes a family of Norwegians worshiping a preserved horse penis.
  Some image stones, such as the Stora Hammers and Tängelgårda stones, were phallic shaped.
caption: Husavik Phallusmuseum (Icelandic Phallological Museum), Húsavík
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