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t. 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, and at times other parts of Europe, the beliefs and practices of Germanic paganism varied.
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List of Germanic deities. A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia ( Emil Doepler, 1905) In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabited Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses ...
NameName MeaningAttested Consorts And Sexual PartnersAttested ChildrenAlcis (Latinized Germanic)ContestedNone attestedNone attestedBaldr ( Old Norse ), Bældæg ( Old English ...Old Norse form is contested. Old English ...Bragi (Old Norse)Connected with Bragr ("poetry") [2]None attestedDellingr (Old Norse)Possibly "the dayspring" [3] or "shining ...People also ask
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Germanic paganism. Germanic paganism was a religion. It was a form of paganism. It was practiced in Central and Northern Europe before Christianity came there. The best documented form is called Norse mythology today. The religion was polytheistic, there were many gods. The main ones seem to have been Odin and Thor.
Several more details are given in other sources, generally cruder than those of the “Völuspá.”. Germanic religion and mythology - Beliefs, Practices, Institutions: Sacrifice often was conducted in the open or in groves and forests. The human sacrifice to the tribal god of the Semnones, described by Tacitus, took place in a sacred grove ...
