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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 (4,463 words) - 00:34, 25 March 2024
- 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
- close to collapse. External danger came from the Germanic tribes and from the Sassanid Empire. Outbreak of smallpox towards the mid-point of the century ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 02:07, 22 December 2022
- In Germanic paganism, trees played a prominent role, appearing in various aspects of surviving texts and possibly in the name of gods. The Tree ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- In the years afterwards Julian fought the Germanic tribes that tried ... Bowersock in particular), Julian's Paganism was highly eccentric and ...29 KB (4,399 words) - 21:10, 4 October 2022
- as they represent a fusion of the traditional Germanic warrior-king with Christianity sainthood. Given the breadth of his influence, it is not ...27 KB (4,245 words) - 13:29, 5 September 2022
- simply meant spring and derives from the Germanic root for spring (specifically Old English lencten; also the Anglo-Saxon name for March—lenct ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 20:02, 25 October 2022
- grateful citizens abandon their ancestral paganism and convert to Christianity. ... Greek mythology, along with examples from Germanic and Vedic traditions, have ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- Rhine provinces were under attack from the Germanic tribes actually entering Italy, the first time that an invading army had done so since Hannibal ...18 KB (2,788 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2023
- , but also to territories under North Germanic dominance, mainly the Danelaw ... these peoples also had traditions of Germanic paganism and practiced runelore ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- Nicholas tradition could be traced back to the Germanic god Wodan (Odin). The appearance is similar to some portrayals of this god. In the Saint Nicholas ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- of religious practices like shamanism and paganism. While magic has been feared ... grew into what would become known as Paganism, mixed with other Indo-European ...35 KB (5,255 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- in early 9th century Norway drawing on the common Germanic tradition of alliterative verse. In the ninth century, the first instances of skaldic poetry ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
- C.E., as the Western Roman Empire fell to Germanic invaders. However, the Eastern ... Germanic tribes and other peoples launched many raids along the long ...70 KB (11,213 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- Germanic dialects replaced Latin or Celtic in the eastern part of England. ... indicating a much older pre-Roman Germanic influence in south and east ...51 KB (7,614 words) - 13:43, 28 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category: Holiday {{Infobox Holiday | |holiday_name=May Day |image=Maypoles.jpg ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- would ultimately break with his father's paganism and convert Rus to Christianity. John Skylitzes Synopsis Historion, John Skylitzes [http://homepage ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- religion did not begin to fully replace paganism until the twelfth century ... from the ancient court system used by all Germanic peoples, the Ting, and the ...40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
- that would endure for many centuries: the Germanic Franks ruled over an increasing ... a shield in accordance with the ancient Germanic practice of electing a war ...50 KB (7,783 words) - 08:59, 6 October 2022
- the western provinces from the Germanic tribes. He surrounded himself ... this training-school for Hellenism. Paganism was actively suppressed ...22 KB (3,355 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- bonfire, it bears more relation to the Germanic May Day festival, both in ... * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/paganism/holydays/beltane_1 ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 08:55, 27 September 2023
- Most Norwegians are ethnic Norwegians, a Nordic/North Germanic people ... in the north, by the Sami people. The Germanic Norwegian language and the ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- in the South, which adhered to polytheism and Germanic tribes in the North, which adhered to paganism. After the Roman Empire occupied the South, mythology ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- and sharply contrasts with the traditional Germanic system, where kingship was held by military prowess and not necessarily by blood. Moreover, some ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- The Franks, originally a pagan, barbarian, Germanic people who migrated ... 500 Saxons who had been caught practicing paganism after converting to Christianity ...56 KB (8,914 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- and Magyars, along with a large number of Germanic, and later Slavic peoples ... forms, gradually developed. Celtic and Germanic barbarian forms were absorbed ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- belief in the superiority of the supposed Germanic or "Nordic" race. ... his anti-Semitism and purported Aryan-Germanic racism, influenced the Nazis ...53 KB (8,225 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- which were usually based on stories from Germanic paganism or Arthurian legend. Finally, Wagner built his own opera house at Bayreuth, exclusively ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- The Germanic Goths and Asiatic Huns were the first to invade. The ... religion of the regime, thus suffusing Paganism, until both were later overshadowed ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- and all are thought to be derived from finn, a Germanic word for nomadic "hunter-gatherers." How, why and when this designation would have ...43 KB (6,190 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- by Jewish merchants (mercaderes) from Germanic countries and parts of Northern Europe not controlled by the Carolingian Empire. These columns ...45 KB (6,987 words) - 14:55, 27 April 2023
- have its own religion. Historical examples include Germanic polytheism, Celtic polytheism, Slavic polytheism and pre-Hellenistic Greek religion, as well ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
