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 ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- The Nibelungenlied is based on pre-Christian Germanic heroic motifs ... A historical nucleus of the saga lies in events of the Germanic Migration ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- 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 ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 03:18, 23 December 2022
- with surviving elements amalgamated from Germanic, Gaulish (Gallo-Roman), ... between the Roman Catholic Church and paganism has been an ambivalent one ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 08:34, 23 July 2023
- to make major inroads with the Germanic tribes, and many of the ... Auxentius went on to praise the efforts of the great Germanic Arian ...25 KB (3,876 words) - 06:26, 12 August 2023
- years, originating in the pre-Christian Paganism of Europe. Various related ... with (or directly draw upon) ancient pan-Germanic and pan-Celtic holidays ...23 KB (3,499 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- 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 ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- Philip's rule started with yet another Germanic incursion on ... it was later that Christianity replaced paganism as the state religion, it ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 03:50, 24 November 2022
- Odin's name derives from the Proto-Germanic *Wōđinaz or *Wōđanaz ... Worship of Odin dates back to early Germanic paganism. The most compelling ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 10:20, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- system shared by the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples. This mythological ... * Gregory, Timothy E. "The Survival of Paganism in Christian ...27 KB (4,366 words) - 02:39, 1 December 2023
- to the indigenous culture, renouncing paganism and converting to Christianity ... ruling classes in England, displacing the Germanic-based Anglo-Saxon language ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages. Old Norse was spoken and where the North Germanic languages are now dominant ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- kingdom, and that he attempted to reform Slavic paganism by establishing the Slavic thunder-god Perun as a supreme deity. ==Baptism of the Rus'== ...12 KB (1,795 words) - 20:46, 3 May 2023
- extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, the pre ... sources for modern knowledge of the old Germanic mythology. The Poetic Edda ...21 KB (3,478 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 11:51, 22 January 2024
- A goblin is a mythical creature of Germanic and British folklore, ... such creatures came out of an interest in Paganism and its mysticism, especially ...13 KB (2,074 words) - 15:53, 18 December 2022
- I. Then, on September 4, 476, Odoacer, a Germanic chief, engineered the abdication ... The Germanic Heruli, under their chieftain Odoacer, were refused land ...28 KB (4,494 words) - 20:23, 1 November 2023
- 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 ...27 KB (4,434 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- 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. ...35 KB (5,443 words) - 16:28, 20 September 2023