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  1. norsemythology.substack.com

    Dec 4, 2023Even legendary Norse heroes such as Sigurðr and Vǫlundr respectively show up in the German and English record with names like Siegfried and Wēland. Germanic mythology also retains similarities with its broader Indo-European cousins. To illustrate, one common motif found in many Indo-European traditions is that of the thundergod.
  2. Dec 23, 2024Germanic religion and mythology - Norse, Pagan, Gods: The story of the beginning is told, with much variation, in three poems of the Elder Edda, and a synthesis of these is given by Snorri Sturluson in his Prose Edda. Snorri adds certain details that he must have taken from sources now lost. Defective as it is, the account of the "Völuspá" appears to be the most rational description of ...
  3. Unfortunately, we can't know what all of the differences between Norse and non-Norse Germanic paganism were because the Norse (specifically Icelanders) were the only ones to record any extensive documentation of their mythology from pagan times. Much of the non-Norse material is more fragmentary.
  4. nordicperspective.com

    Feb 17, 2024So, Were the Vikings Germanic? The Norse people living in Scandinavia during the Viking Age (including the seafaring raiders we call Vikings today) were a North Germanic people speaking a North Germanic language, directly descending from the Nordic Bronze Age culture which is seen by historians as the ancestral culture of all Germanic people.
  5. Personally, my position on it is that "Germanic" mythology is common across the entire pagan Germanic tradition, with obvious regional differences. Not only do we have the problem noted above, in which we don't know how much of the recorded Norse mythology is actually what any Norse believed vs. Sturleson's own interpretation and propoganda ...
  6. I also found out that Norse Mythology can be categorized as North Germanic Paganism/Mythology which got me excited to learn about the other subtypes. Wikipedia states that along side North Germanic Mythology, there is Continental Germanic Mythology and Anglo-Saxon Mythology.
  7. Question About Norse And Germanic Mythology I'm reading two books on Norse mythology but they seem to be using the word Germanic interchangeably with Norse. The books are: The Encyclopedia of Mythology by Arthur Cotterell, which focuses on Greek/Roman mythology, Celtic mythology and Norse mythology.
  8. historycooperative.org

    Mar 4, 2024Germanic paganism and mythology include a handful of other cultural and regional mythologies. These include Norse, Continental Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon religions, myths, and legends. When discussing Norse myths as a fragment of Germanic mythology, they are referred to as Northern or North Germanic mythology.
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