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When Paul the Deacon wrote the Historia between 787 and 796 he was a Catholic monk and devoted Christian.
Priester states that when the Winnili changed their name to " Lombards ", they also changed their old agricultural fertility cult to a cult of Odin, thus creating a conscious tribal tradition.
Fröhlich inverts the order of events in Priester and states that with the Odin cult, the Lombards grew their beards in resemblance of the Odin of tradition and their new name reflected this.
Bruckner remarks that the name of the Lombards stands in close relation to the worship of Odin, whose many names include " the Long-bearded " or " the Grey-bearded ", and that the Lombard given name Ansegranus (" he with the beard of the gods ") shows that the Lombards had this idea of their chief deity.
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