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  2. 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.
  3. 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 ...
  4. The Norse are considered a Germanic people, so the myths and stories come from a common origin. Just as Frisian, Frankish, Anglo-Saxon, Gothic, Alemannic, Suebian and every other Germanic people's beliefs did.
  5. Norse mythology as it has been passed down to us from Icelandic authors is but a drop in the bucket of a much broader Germanic religious system. The concepts and stories proliferated by pre-Christian Norse people were not rigid and unchanging across time and distance in Scandinavia (Brink 2007, Gunnell 2015), and the resulting variations can ...
  6. Norse mythology has 'relatively' abundant written (textual) sources compared with next to none reliable for continental German or very fragmentary Anglo-Saxon one, though recent scholars increasingly became wary of how extant Scandinavian sources could be representative of the actual beliefs among the Norse people during the Viking Age.
  7. Norse is Germanic. Or do you ask about Germany? The North was Saxon —also a Germanic tribe— during the antiquity, the South Celtic. E.g. Norse mythology and Saxon mythology differ in details. Celtic mythology is largely unrelated.
  8. 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.
  9. Lets start at the beginning, Germania didn't really exist, but tribes which considered themselves Germanic, they shared a language and a religion, but there where a lot of regional differences in both. Similar to the Greek mythology different tribes saw some gods as more important than others or the gods had other responsibilities.
  10. 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.
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