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List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere; List of fictional deities; List of goddesses; List of people who have been considered deities; see also apotheosis, Imperial cult and Sacred king; Names of God, names of deities of monotheistic religions
First Named in "King Arthur Meets Lady Guinevere" Howard Pyle Son of King of Umberland, and brother unto Enchantress Vivien, one of the original 32 Knights of the Round Table Erec† Unclear; first literary appearance as Erec in Erec and Enide, c. 1170 see Geraint and Enid: Son of King Lac and a Knight of the Round Table Escanor the Handsome Girart
Bear god / goddess; A132.9. Cattle god / goddess; A161.2. King of the Gods; A177.1. Gods as Dupe or Tricksters; A192. Death or departure of the gods; A193. Gods of Dying-and-rising; A200—A299. Gods of the Upper World A210. Gods of the Sky; A220. Gods of the Sun; A240. Gods of the Moon; A250. Gods of the Stars; A260. Gods of Light; A270. Gods ...
General deities were known by the Celts throughout large regions, and are the gods and goddesses called upon for protection, healing, luck, and honour. The local deities from Celtic nature worship were the spirits of a particular feature of the landscape, such as mountains, trees, or rivers, and thus were generally only known by the locals in ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. This is a list of monarchs (and other royalty and nobility) sorted by nickname. This list is divided into two parts: Cognomens: Also called cognomina. These are names which are appended before or after the person's name, like the epitheton necessarium, or Roman victory titles. Examples ...
In medieval Swedish lists of kings, the figure generally represented as the first king of Sweden is Olof Skötkonung, [3] the first Christian king of Sweden and the first Swedish king to mint coins. The earlier kings are for the most part only attested in Icelandic sagas , sometimes contradictory mixtures of myths and poetry, written in the ...
Eadbald (died 640), king of Kent; Eanfrith (590–634), king of Bernicia from 633 to 634 who reverted to paganism after becoming king; Ecgric (died c. 636), East Anglian king of an independent kingdom; Emund Eriksson, Swedish king; Eric of Good Harvests (died c. 1081), semi-historical successor to Blot-Sweyn, and the last pagan king in Scandinavia
Germanic deities are attested from numerous sources, including works of literature, various chronicles, runic inscriptions, personal names, place names, and other sources. This article contains a comprehensive list of Germanic deities outside the numerous Germanic Matres and Matronae inscriptions from the 1st to 5th century CE.