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  1. encyclopedia.com

    GERMANIC RELIGION The sources for the study of the religion and mythology of the old Germanic (Teutonic) peoples are few. They consist chiefly of Greek, Roman, and medieval writings, runic inscriptions, folklore, laws, and the vitae of early missionaries. The Germania of Tacitus is especially important as a source. Source for information on Germanic Religion: New Catholic Encyclopedia dictionary.
  2. historycooperative.org

    Mar 4, 2024The Germanic World, known more widely as Germania or Magna Germania in Latin, includes the modern countries of France, Denmark, Poland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Austria, and (of course) Germany. These old gods were central to Germanic religion and were severely impacted when Rome outlawed pagan religions across its empire in 392 CE.
  3. encyclopedia.com

    GERMANIC RELIGION: AN OVERVIEW From the linguistic point of view, the Germanic people constitute an archaic branch of the Indo-European family. The earliest Germanic culture that archaeologists identify as such is the so-called Jastorf culture, a cultural province of northern Europe in the Early Iron Age (c. 600 bce) covering present-day Holstein, Jutland, northeast Saxony, and western ...
  4. thecollector.com

    Jul 16, 2023The period around 500 BCE is considered a distinct period in which Germanic culture can be distinguished from what came before. This can be measured by the evidence of a uniform religion that stretched across the areas inhabited by what is considered to be the Germanic people. This religion is known today as Germanic Paganism.
  5. According to modern scholarship it is not viable to attempt to trace the origins of Germanic religion back to the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of both northern and central Europe, even though there is clear evidence of strong continuities between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age cultures. The earliest manifestations of a "Germanic ...
    Author:Rudolf SimekPublished:2013
  6. encyclopedia.com

    GERMANIC RELIGION: HISTORY OF STUDY This article concentrates on the most recent phase of the history of scholarship on Germanic religion. A 1956 study by Jan de Vries provides a detailed review of work up to the middle of the twentieth century, and 1985 reviews by Joseph Harris and John Lindow cover developments up to the early 1980s. Source for information on Germanic Religion: History of ...
  7. Germanic religion, like most ancient religions, was polytheistic. In early times there were two groups of gods—the Aesir and the Vanir. However, after a war between the rival pantheons (which perhaps reflects a war between two rival tribes), the defeated Vanir were absorbed into the Aesir, and the gods of both were worshiped in a single pantheon.
  8. Mar 17, 2023Of All The Fields of early Germanic culture and literature, none has been as badly marred by ideological controversies as the study of the pre-Christian heathen Germanic religion. The great interest taken by the political and cultural leaders of the Third Reich in this field was unfortunately shared by many university teachers at the time.
  9. worldhistory.org

    Search Results: Germanic religion. Filters. You can refine the search results by selecting any of the filters below. Clear Filters. Types. Definition (45) Article (17) Image (7) ... Germanic influence reigned in the Roman Empire from the end of the 4th century CE through the 5th. Germanic individuals took important posts in the government and ...
  10. de.wikipedia.org

    Die Germanische Religion ist ein Sammelbegriff für die polytheistischen religiösen Kulte und Riten der germanischen Stämme und Völker seit der jüngeren Bronzezeit bis zum ausgehenden Frühmittelalter.Die Religion ist von der germanischen Mythologie zu unterscheiden.. Die Germanische Religion wird angrund der zeitlichen und lokalen Zuordnung der Quellen in eine Nordgermanische Religion und ...

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