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  1. britannica.com

    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 ...
  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. fluentin3months.com

    Oct 13, 2023The Northern Germanic or Norse deity list is also longer than the Continental and Eastern mythological deities due to their many minor deities. Continental Germanic folklore mostly consists of Saxon myths and legends, while Eastern Germanic folklore shares lots of features with Norse mythology.
  5. 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.

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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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