Proto-Germanic paganism was the beliefs of the speakers of Proto-Germanic and includes topics such as the Germanic mythology, legendry, and folk beliefs...
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modern period. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology and stemming from Proto-Germanic folklore, Norse mythology consists of tales of various...
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Continental Germanic mythology. It was a key element of Germanic paganism. As the Germanic languages developed from Proto-Indo-European language, Germanic mythology...
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The Germanic parent language (GPL), also known as Pre-Germanic Indo-European (PreGmc) or Pre-Proto-Germanic (PPG), is the stage of the Germanic branch...
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North and West Germanic folklore include elves, dwarfs, and the mare. (For more discussion on these entities, see Proto-Germanic folklore.) The great majority...
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from Norse sources (see Proto-Germanic folklore). Textual and archaeological sources allow the reconstruction of aspects of Germanic ritual and practice....
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Dragons, or worms, are present in Germanic mythology and wider folklore, where they are often portrayed as large venomous serpents. Especially in later...
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numbers in Germanic paganism. Both numbers (and multiples thereof) appear throughout surviving attestations of ancient Germanic folklore, in both mythology...
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Teutons (redirect from Teutons (Germanic tribe))
be interpreted as deriving from Proto-Celtic *towtā ('people, tribe'), or it may have been from a stage of Germanic language development prior to the...
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terms variously referred to stones, groves, and temple structures. From Proto-Germanic *harugaz, a masculine noun, developed Old Norse hǫrgr meaning 'altar'...
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Dutch: mare, Proto-Slavic *mara; mara in Old High German, Old Norse, and Swedish) is a malicious entity in Germanic and Slavic folklore that walks on...
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Germanic kingship is a thesis regarding the role of kings among the pre-Christianized Germanic tribes of the Migration period (c. 300–700 AD) and Early...
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derived from Proto-Germanic, spoken in Iron Age Scandinavia, Iron Age Northern Germany and along the North Sea and Baltic coasts. The West Germanic languages...
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Early Germanic culture was the culture of the early Germanic peoples. Largely derived from a synthesis of Proto-Indo-European and indigenous Northern...
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The Germanic peoples underwent gradual Christianization in the course of late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. By AD 700, England and Francia were...
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Ptolemy: Geography Tacitus: Germania Proto-Indo-Europeans (Proto-Indo-European speakers) Proto-Germanics (Proto-Germanic speakers) Avarpi Burgundians / Burgundiones...
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hand–made pottery typical of that found in western Germanic groups, suggesting the presence of Germanic groups. The Chernyakhov people were primarily a settled...
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Elder Futhark (redirect from Common Germanic Futhark)
either a diphthong or a vowel close to [ɪ] or [æ]. z was Proto-Germanic [z], and evolved into Proto-Norse /r₂/ and is also transliterated as ʀ. The remaining...
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dwarf (pl. dwarfs or dwarves) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Accounts of dwarfs vary significantly throughout history; however...
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In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses...
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Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective. The beginnings of research...
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Arianism (section Among medieval Germanic tribes)
who were there were in agreement with the major theological points of the proto-orthodoxy, since at that time all other forms of Christianity "had by this...
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In Germanic mythology, an idis (Old Saxon, plural idisi) is a divine female being. Idis is cognate to Old High German itis and Old English ides, meaning...
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that derive from the Proto-Germanic language, which is generally thought to have emerged as a distinct language after 500 BC. Germanic culture is characterized...
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Harii (category Early Germanic peoples)
The Harii (West Germanic "warriors") were, according to a single brief remark by the 1st century CE Roman historian Tacitus, a Germanic people the most...
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Scandza (redirect from Mixi (Germanic tribe))
there was a land bridge which cut off the sea in the east forming the Germanic Sea". "There were also many small islands" (the Swedish and Finnish archipelagos)...
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Rune (redirect from Germanic rune)
wide variety of ways in modern popular culture. The name stems from a Proto-Germanic form reconstructed as *rūnō, which may be translated as 'secret, mystery;...
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Germanic law is a scholarly term used to describe a series of commonalities between the various law codes (the Leges Barbarorum, 'laws of the barbarians'...
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studied by archaeologists. The Germanic Iron Age is divided into the Early Germanic Iron Age (EGIA) and the Late Germanic Iron Age (LGIA). It is particularly...
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their own power in much of the area of the Western Empire. In 476, the Germanic barbarian king Odoacer deposed the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire...
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