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    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.
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    Dec 5, 2023Norse mythology as it survives today is just one northwestern flavor of broader Germanic mythology. 10 It's part of a religious family that shares common origins with traditions such as ancient Anglo-Saxon mythology and ancient German mythology.
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    Dec 29, 2023Proto-Germanic *þunraz eventually yielded even more words as the various members of the Germanic language family began to take their own shapes over time. To name just a few examples, this word became þórr in Old Norse, donar in Old High German, and þunor in Old English, which itself evolved into the Modern English word thunder.
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    Jan 16, 2024Norse mythology didn't appear in a vacuum. The stories that have been passed down to us in Eddas and sagas generally reflect a late, Icelandic flavor of broader Germanic mythology that evolved over several millennia out of even earlier Indo-European traditions. 1 We can pretty confidently date many of our mythological sources based on linguistic markers and, among these, some originated in ...
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    Jan 3, 2024The linguistic relationship between "hammer" and "stone" in Germanic languages is surprisingly close. The Old Norse word hamarr referred not only to a blacksmith's tool, but had another meaning of "crag, rock, cliff" 1. In fact the earlier, Proto-Germanic root *hamara is defined by Kroonen as "hammer; back of an axe; crag; precipice" 2, indicating an early association between ...
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    A source-driven approach to examining Norse mythology and more broadly ancient Germanic religion and culture. Click to read Norse Mythology & Germanic Lore, by J.G. Harker, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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