Search results for "Germanic paganism" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller or rustic ... and anthropologists avoid the term "paganism" when referring to ...
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  • The Nibelungenlied is based on pre-Christian Germanic heroic motifs ... A historical nucleus of the saga lies in events of the Germanic Migration ...
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  • An 1886 depiction of the indigenous [[Germanic paganism|Germanic god]] Odin ... the figure of Odin, a major god among the Germanic peoples prior to their Christianization ...
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  • with surviving elements amalgamated from Germanic, Gaulish (Gallo-Roman), ... between the Roman Catholic Church and paganism has been an ambivalent one ...
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  • to make major inroads with the Germanic tribes, and many of the ... Auxentius went on to praise the efforts of the great Germanic Arian ...
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  • years, originating in the pre-Christian Paganism of Europe. Various related ... with (or directly draw upon) ancient pan-Germanic and pan-Celtic holidays ...
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  • The Goths were an East Germanic tribe which originated in Scandinavia ... of films and other works of art. The Germanic epics in which he appears ...
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  • Philip's rule started with yet another Germanic incursion on ... it was later that Christianity replaced paganism as the state religion, it ...
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  • Odin's name derives from the Proto-Germanic *Wōđinaz or *Wōđanaz ... Worship of Odin dates back to early Germanic paganism. The most compelling ...
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  • intended to do harm. It should be noted that North Germanic terms such as trolldom (witchcraft) and trolla/trylle (perform magic tricks) in modern Scandinavian ...
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  • system shared by the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples. This mythological ... * Gregory, Timothy E. "The Survival of Paganism in Christian ...
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  • to the indigenous culture, renouncing paganism and converting to Christianity ... ruling classes in England, displacing the Germanic-based Anglo-Saxon language ...
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  • heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages. Old Norse was spoken and where the North Germanic languages are now dominant ...
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  • kingdom, and that he attempted to reform Slavic paganism by establishing the Slavic thunder-god Perun as a supreme deity. ==Baptism of the Rus'== ...
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  • extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, the pre ... sources for modern knowledge of the old Germanic mythology. The Poetic Edda ...
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  • as the number of those recognizing the old Germanic pagan religions declined; for some, the practice came to be about art and tradition; for others ...
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  • A goblin is a mythical creature of Germanic and British folklore, ... such creatures came out of an interest in Paganism and its mysticism, especially ...
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  • I. Then, on September 4, 476, Odoacer, a Germanic chief, engineered the abdication ... The Germanic Heruli, under their chieftain Odoacer, were refused land ...
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  • peoples as a tribute to Freyr, a god in Germanic Paganism associated with boars, harvest, and fertility.H. R. Ellis Davidson. Gods And Myths Of Northern ...
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  • some of which "savoured strongly of paganism," and the farmer was ... suggests that the November 1st date was a Germanic rather than a Celtic idea. ...
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