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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.
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.
A Germanic people who were possibly a remnant of the Langobards. [153] The name is from PGmc *χaþuz ("war") [154] and *barđaz ("beard"). [155] In Beowulf, Hróðgar's daughter Freawaru will marry their king Ingeld to bring peace between the tribes. At the wedding a young Dane will offend the Heaðobards by carrying one of their captured swords.
The heroic tradition in England died out with the Norman Conquest, which replaced the Germanic-speaking aristocracy who had cultivated Germanic heroic legend with a Romance-speaking one. [ 209 ] In Germany, the heroic tradition largely disappears from writing around 1600; it is likely that the oral tradition had been dying out prior to this ...
Gambara addressed the goddess Frigg (Frēa), and she told her that the Winnili women should but their hair in front of their faces like beards, and stand next to their men. When the god Odin ( Godan ) saw them in the morning he asked who the "long beards" were, and Frigg prevailed on Odin to give the Winnili victory against the Vandals, and the ...
Early and English Attestations Norse Attestations German Attestations Hache Old English: Hēhca, Middle High German: Hâche, Old Norse: Áki Aurlungatrausti: Kemp Malone suggested that the name represented Achiulf (*Hāhiwulf), father of Ermanaric. [1] The name is probably based on Gmc *hanha-, OHG hâhan ("to hang").
The most important sources on Germanic mythology, however, are works of Old Norse literature, most of which were written down in the Icelandic Commonwealth during the Middle Ages; of particular importance is the Poetic Edda. [1] Archaeological evidence, Runic inscriptions and place-names are also useful sources on Germanic mythology. [1]
The Skáldskaparmál part of the Prose Edda also lists him as a sea-king, [41] and it tells that his name was also used in kennings in skaldic poetry and teaches that the phrase Ræfill's land refers to the "sea", and ships are the horses of Ræfill's land, and their riders are seamen. [42] Hervarar saga, Prose Edda: Reginn/Mimir