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Woden, king of the gods and god of wisdom. Cognate to Norse Odin. Source of the word 'Wednesday'. Tīw, a war god and possibly a sky god. Cognate to Norse Týr, as well as Greek Zeus, Roman Jupiter, Baltic Dievs/Dievas and Hindu Dyaus. Source of the word 'Tuesday'. Thunor, god of thunder and cognate to Norse Thor and source of the word 'Thursday'.
The right half of the front panel of the 7th-century Franks Casket, depicting the Anglo-Saxon (and wider Germanic) legend of Wayland the Smith. Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, or Anglo-Saxon polytheism refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the 5th ...
Wecta (Old English: Wægdæg, Old Norse: Vegdagr) is a figure mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Historia Brittonum.. Wecta is considered mythological, though he shows up in the genealogies as a Saxon ancestor of Hengest and Horsa and the kings of Kent, as well as of Aella of Deira and his son Edwin of Northumbria.
The larger narrative, seen in the history of Anglo-Saxon England, is the continued mixing and integration of various disparate elements into one Anglo-Saxon people. [ citation needed ] The outcome of this mixing and integration was a continuous re-interpretation by the Anglo-Saxons of their society and worldview, which Heinreich Härke calls a ...
Wōden is the divine progenitor in the other surviving Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, so presumably the earlier form of the Essex genealogy preserves a specifically Saxon tradition of a national god. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Wōden may have displaced national or regional deities in the other genealogies as part of his rising influence, [ 6 ] or use of his ...
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 'well-respected and dignified woman.' Connections have been assumed or theorized between the idisi and the North Germanic dísir ; female beings associated with fate, as well as the amended ...
In the first chapter, entitled "The Up World", Griffiths discusses the Anglo-Saxons' pre-Christian beliefs about their gods, looking at the veneration of idols and the manner in which the deities were understood by the Anglo-Saxons, in doing so contrasting them with those of the Classical world. [2]
Yngvi is a name of the god Freyr, perhaps Freyr's true name, as freyr means 'lord' and has probably evolved from a common invocation of the god. In the Íslendingabók (written in the early twelfth century by the Icelandic priest Ari Þorgilsson ) Yngvi Tyrkja konungr 'Yngvi king of Turkey ' appears as the father of Njörðr who in turn is the ...