goddessesgodsRoman religionssacrificeTo speak of religion in the Celtic and Germanic west and north implies a modern point of view, which reflects both the modern conceptual isolation of "religion" from other aspects of culture and the modern use of the terms "Celtic" and "Germanic" as distinct...
the following facts come to the front. The myth exhibits gods and goddesses of the heathen time. Of gods: Wuotan, and perhaps Frey, if I may take 'Berhtolt' to mean him. We can see Wuotan still in his epithets of the cloaked, the bearded, which were afterwards misunderstood...
Birgina– Weimar III (Thüringen, Germany), bronze belt buckle. Meaning: birg-, ‘protection’ and the female suffix *-injō-. Bliþgunþ– Neudingen-Barr II (Baden-Württemberg, Germany), wooden stave. Meaning: bliđi-, ‘glad’ and -gunþ, ‘battle’. Buriso– Beuchte (Niede...
Germanic religion and mythology, complex of stories, lore, and beliefs about the gods and the nature of the cosmos developed by the Germanic-speaking peoples before their conversion to Christianity. Germanic culture extended, at various times, from the B
West Germanic languages - Germanic, Indo-European, Dialects: German is spoken throughout a large area in central Europe, where it is the national language of Germany and of Austria and one of the three official languages of Switzerland (the others are Fr
Notes to Þrymskvidaby F. Detter and R. Heinzel, 1903. "Reading Þrymskviða" by Margaret Clunies Ross inThe Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology, 2002. "Thrym" by Kathleen Jenks inGods, Goddesses, and Mythology, 2005....
Other articles where Lex Romana Visigothorum is discussed: France: Germans and Gallo-Romans: …population (Papian Code of Gundobad; Breviary of Alaric). By the 9th century this principle of legal personality, under which each person was judged according
The hall shook and shuddered about them, Broken to bits was the Brising Necklace:[2] 'In the eyes of the gods a whore I should seem, If I journeyed with you to Gianthome.' The gods hastened to their Hall of Judgment, Gathered together, goddesses with them, ...
In the late 1st centuryadmost of the Suebi lived around theElbe River. Dislodged by the Huns, some Suebi crossed theRhine Riverand in 409 enteredSpain, settling mainly in the northwest (Gallaecia). By 447, under their king Rechila, the Suebi had spread over the Roman provinces of Lusitania...