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De temporum ratione. Freyja (Old Norse) (See List of names of Freyja for more) "Lady" [24] Freyr, Óðr. Hnoss, Gersemi. Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Heimskringla, Sörla þáttr. Frigg (Old Norse) Derived from an Indo-European root meaning "Love" [25] (Gives her name to Friday, as the Germanic equivalent of Venus).
A number of Germanic gods are mentioned in Old Norse literature and they are divided into the Æsir and the Vanir. The Æsir are primarily gods of war and dominate the latter, who are gods of fertility and wealth. [1] The chief god of the Æsir is Odin, a god associated with war, seiðr (witchcraft), and wisdom. He was probably worshipped ...
e. Germanic paganism or Germanic religion refers to the traditional, culturally significant religion of the Germanic peoples. With a chronological range of at least one thousand years in an area covering Scandinavia, the British Isles, modern Germany, the Netherlands, and at times other parts of Europe, the beliefs and practices of Germanic ...
Ēostre (Proto-Germanic: * Austrō (n)) is a West Germanic spring goddess. The name is reflected in Old English: * Ēastre ([ˈæːɑstre]; Northumbrian dialect: Ēastro, Mercian and West Saxon dialects: Ēostre [ˈeːostre]), [1][2][3] Old High German: * Ôstara, and Old Saxon: * Āsteron. [4][5] By way of the Germanic month bearing her name ...
Boreas (Βορέας, Boréas; also Βορρᾶς, Borrhás) was the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter. His name meant "North Wind" or "Devouring One". His name gives rise to the adjective "boreal". Khione (from χιών – chiōn, "snow") is the daughter of Boreas and Greek goddess of snow. Ded Moroz (literally ...
Category. : Germanic goddesses. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Germanic goddesses. This category includes goddesses attested among the North Germanic peoples. See also Category:Germanic gods .
Sacred trees and groves are widely attested among the records of the ancient Germanic peoples. Some scholars hypothesize that they even predated the development of temples (according to Rudolf Simek, "there were sacred woods long before there were temples and altars" [8]). In his Germania, Tacitus says that the Germanic peoples "consecrate ...
Deutsche Mythologie (German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə mytoloˈɡiː], Teutonic Mythology) is a treatise on Germanic mythology by Jacob Grimm.First published in Germany in 1835, the work is an exhaustive treatment of the subject, tracing the mythology and beliefs of the ancient Germanic peoples from their earliest attestations to their survivals in modern traditions, folktales and popular expressions.