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The 9th c. Rök runestone lists names of Germanic heroes and events, but the significance of most of them is nowadays lost. The figures in the lists below are listed either by the name of their article on Wikipedia or, if there is no article, according to the name by which they are most commonly attested.
Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), German-Polish-British tennis player, highest world ranking # 6; Birgit Prinz (born 1977), football player; Lina Radke (1903–1983), athlete; Teodor Regedziński (also known as Theodor Reger) (1894–1954), Polish chess master of German origin; father's name was Reger; Otto Rehhagel (born 1938), football player and ...
The name is probably derived from PGmc *nauði-("need, distress"), with the German form developing from a contracted form of the diphthong with a nasalized long "o" to OHG "uo/ua". [ 204 ] [ 205 ] The son of Rüdiger; he mentioned as having been killed by Witege in the Nibelungenlied , but appears as a supporting character in other epics.
German kingdom (blue) in the Holy Roman Empire around 1000. This is a list of monarchs who ruled over East Francia, and the Kingdom of Germany (Latin: Regnum Teutonicum), from the division of the Frankish Empire in 843 and the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 until the collapse of the German Empire in 1918:
The name means "Dáin's legacy". [6] The name Dáinn itself means "the one who is dead". [7] The sword wielded by Högni in the never-ending Hjaðningavíg in the Poetic Edda. It was forged by the dwarves and every time is drawn it has to kill a man. When used it never fails and it wounds never heal. [8] Eckesachs
An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973); highly detailed outline of events online free; Morris, Richard B. and Graham W. Irwin, eds. Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World: A Concise Reference History from 1760 to the Present (1970) online; George Henry Townsend (1867), "Germany", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
An originally continental Germanic name (Old High German Hagupart), from the noun *hag-("paddock, fenced area") or the adjective *hag-("comfortable, skilled") and *barð- ("beard"). [22] The son of Hámundr and the brother of Haki 1, he is mentioned in several sources both as a sea-king and as the hero of the Romeo and Juliet couple Hagbard and ...
List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, A; List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, B–C; List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, D–E; List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, F–G; List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, H–He; List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, Hi–Hy; List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, I–O