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    Dec 4, 2023Germanic language, culture, and religion evolved as an offshoot of an earlier, stone-age, Indo-European tradition that arrived in southern Scandinavia with the Battle Axe (or Boat Axe) culture 1 in the 3rd millennium BC. This culture absorbed some of the pre-existing populations in the area 2, took on later influence from Central Europe, and was engaging in long distance trade by the Nordic ...
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    Dec 14, 2023The word Germanic refers to a family of related languages that share certain linguistic features. In modern times this family includes English, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic and a few others. These languages are related because they all descend from a common ancestor language called Proto-Germanic that developed in southern Scandinavia somewhere after 500 BC and was ...
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    Dec 28, 2023The first is a pagan-era poem called Þórsdrápa composed by the skald Eilífr Goðrúnarson, and which is quoted in full in the Prose Edda. The second is Snorri's own retelling of that same story, also included in the Prose Edda. ... Thanks for reading Norse Mythology & Germanic Lore! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
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    Dec 5, 2023As it turns out, the Old Norse words Freyr and Freyja are titles, respectively meaning "Lord" and "Lady". In the case of Freyr, our sources provide a name that accompanies the title: Yngvi, giving us the Old Norse compound Yngvi-Freyr 8 (Lord Yngvi). In fact, whereas Germanic Scandinavians tended toward shortening this name to Freyr over time, other Germanic groups leaned more into ...
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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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    Dec 6, 2023Thanks for reading Norse Mythology & Germanic Lore! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe. ... The Poetic Edda is a collection of poems, most of which can be linguistically dated to having been composed during the Norse pagan period although they were physically written down later. The Prose Edda is a guide to ...
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    Dec 31, 2023There is a direct, Proto-Germanic equivalence between Thor and thunder, and these stones are anciently associated with thunder. These hints together seem to paint a relatively strong silhouette of a bludgeoning-but-also-thunderstone-throwing, Germanic deity that pre-dates the poetry that informed our written sources.

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