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By way of linguistic reconstruction, the matter of a Proto-Germanic goddess called * Austrō has been examined in detail since the foundation of Germanic philology in the 19th century by scholar Jacob Grimm and others.
As the Germanic languages descend from Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), linguists have traced the name to a Proto-Indo-European goddess of the dawn * H₂ewsṓs (→ * Ausṓs ), from which descends the common Germanic goddess that Ēostre and Ostara are held to descend.
Scholars have linked the goddess ' name to a variety of Germanic personal names, a series of location names in England, over 150 2nd century BCE Matronae ( the matronae Austriahenea ) inscriptions discovered in Germany, and have debated whether or not Eostre is an invention of Bede's, and theories connecting Ēostre with records of Germanic Easter customs ( including hares and eggs ) have been proposed.
Ēostre and Ostara are sometimes referenced in modern popular culture, and are venerated in some forms of Germanic Neopaganism.

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