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    Germanic mythology

    Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples, including Norse mythology, Anglo-Saxon mythology, and Continental Germanic mythology. It was a key element of Germanic paganism. Wikipedia

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  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  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. nordicperspective.com

    Nov 12, 2024Nordic = Relating to the Nordic people, languages, or cultures of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Åland, and Greenland (descendants of the Norse people and languages, i.e. the Vikings). Germanic = Relating to the Germanic people, languages, or cultures that originated from Southern Scandinavia and Northern Germany after the bronze age and today span across Northern ...
  7. It comes down to the mythology that the English had appreciation for, and it wasn't their own. Classical mythology and religion influenced Christianity for centuries. Since Christianity was the dominant religion of the English, Classical rather than Anglo-Saxon became the most popular mythology as Christianity spread worldwide with colonialism. Norse is more well known because of a resurgence ...
  8. 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.
  9. 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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