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Name Name meaning Attested consorts and sexual partners Attested children Attestations Baduhenna (Latinized Germanic) Badu-, may be cognate to Proto-Germanic *badwa-meaning "battle." The second portion of the name -henna may be related to -henae, which appears commonly in the names of matrons. [1] None attested: None attested: Tacitus's Annals ...
Other significant Æsir include the trickster god Loki; Heimdallr, who is reported in Rígsþula to have fathered the three classes of men; and Týr, a god associated with war and who lost his hand to the wolf Fenrir, who some scholars have proposed on linguistic evidence may have been a central deity in the Germanic pantheon in earlier times. [1]
The name of the helmet Hildisvíni means "battle-swine", [22] and Hildigǫlt means "battle boar". [11] The Swedes wore helmets decorated with boars. Moreover, the Swedish Yngling dynasty were called descendants of the god Freyr whose animal was the boar. The boar was likely their regal insignia. [23]
Although the word is only attested in the West Germanic languages, it appears to be of pre-Germanic formation. [113] See ghost for further discussion. *guđ(a)z [114] OE god, OFris. god, ODu. god, OS god, OHG got [114] [115] ON guð [114] Goth. guþ [114] Meaning '(a) deity' and predecessor to modern English god. Unclear etymology.
The god *Tiwaz may be attested as early as 450-350 BCE on the Negau helmet. [8] Etymologically, his name is related to the Vedic Dyaus and Greek Zeus, indicating an origin in the reconstructed Indo-European sky deity *Dyēus. [194] He is thus the only attested Germanic god who was already important in Indo-European times. [195]
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The East Central German name gütel or güttel (diminutive of "god", i.e. "little god", var. heugütel [100] [18]) has been suggested as a kobold synonym of the fetish figurine type. [139] Grimm knew the term but placed the discussion of it under the " Wild man of the woods " section [ 140 ] conjecturing the use of güttel as synonymous to ...
When the two young princes Hróarr and Helgi hide with him, he warns them of arriving search parties by calling to them by the names of his two dogs. [23] A seeress later reveals to their enemy that Ho and Hopp referred to the boys. [23] Holkvir Middle High German: Hǫlkvir: The name may be from PGmc *halkwiaz ("runner"). [24]