The design of the ring reflects Himmler's interest in Germanic mysticism.

The word for dragon in Germanic mythology and its descendants is worm ( Old English: wyrm, Old High German: wurm, Old Norse: ormr ), meaning snake or serpent.

The Celtic and Germanic peoples are believed to have eaten the black salsify, which was considered efficacious against the bubonic plague and snake bites until the 16th century.

The word is cognate with English ' snake ', Germanic: * snēk-a -, Proto-IE: *( s ) nēg-o -.

Allegiance is formed from " liege ," from Old French liege, " liege, free ", of Germanic origin.

Both the Latin and the Germanic words derive from the Proto-Indo-European root el -, meaning " red " or " brown ", which is also a root for the English words " elk " and another tree: " elm ", a tree distantly related to the alders.

( from Icelandic for " Æsir faith ", pronounced, in Old Norse ) is a form of Germanic neopaganism which developed in the United States from the 1970s.

While " themes " ( inherited narrative subunits for representing familiar classes of event, such as the " arming the hero ", or the particularly well-studied " hero on the beach " theme ) do exist across Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic works, some scholars conclude that Anglo-Saxon poetry is a mix of oral-formulaic and literate patterns, arguing that the poems both were composed on a word-by-word basis and followed larger formulae and patterns.

The word battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning " exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing ", from Late Latin ( taken from Germanic ) battuere " beat ", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri, and comes from the staged battles in the Colosseum in Rome that may have numbered 10, 000 individuals.

The tribal name, probably a derivation from batawjō (" good island ", from Germanic bat-" good, excellent " and awjō " island, land near water "), refers to the region's fertility, today known as the fruitbasket of the Netherlands ( the Betuwe ).

AD 5-20, says the Bastarnae are " of Germanic stock ", although he includes the non-Germanic Roxolani, a Sarmatian tribe, among the sub-tribes of the Bastarnae ( probably in error ).

A draugr, draug or ( Icelandic ) draugur ( original Old Norse plural draugar, as used here, not " draugrs "), or draugen ( Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, meaning " the draug "), also known as aptrganga (" afturgöngur " in modern Icelandic ) ( literally " after-walker ", or " one who walks after death ") is an undead creature from Norse mythology, a subset of Germanic mythology.

Then he announced to the world: " The independence of Austria, for which he has fallen, is a principle that has been defended and will be defended by Italy even more strenuously ", and then replaced in the main square of Bolzano the statue of Walther von der Vogelweide, a Germanic troubadour, with that of Drusus, a Roman general who conquered part of Germany.

Eos is cognate to Vedic Sanskrit ' Ushas ' and Latin Aurora, both goddesses of dawn, and all three considered derivatives of a PIE stem * H₂ewsṓs (→ * Ausṓs ), " dawn ", a stem that also gave rise to Proto-Germanic * Austrō, Old Germanic Ôstara and Old English Ēostre / Ēastre.

Others have proposed a Germanic etymology * gēr-manni, " spear men ", cf.

The pair has been compared to similar figures found in Greek, Roman and Vedic mythology, and may also be connected to beliefs surrounding the Germanic " wolf-warrior bands ", the Úlfhéðnar.

Finally, there were the English or " Angles ", Germanic invaders who had overrun much of southern Britain and held the Kingdom of Bernicia, in the south-east.

The English term has cognates in the other Germanic languages: Old Saxon heƀan " sky, heaven ", Middle Low German heven " sky ", Old Icelandic himinn " sky, heaven ", Gothic himins ; and those with a variant final-l: Old Frisian himel, himul " sky, heaven ", Old Saxon / Old High German himil, Dutch hemel, and modern German Himmel.

This meaning, of unknown origin, is common among West Germanic languages ( cf: Old Frisian kniucht, Dutch knecht, Danish knægt, Swedish knekt, Norwegian knekt, Middle High German kneht, all meaning " boy, youth, lad ", as well as German Knecht " servant, bondsman, vassal ").

These words are cognates derived from Germanic rīdan " to ride ", derived from the Proto-Indo-European root reidh -.

However, very similar-looking alterations in the systems of long vowels in the West Germanic languages greatly postdate any possible notion of a proto-language innovation ( and cannot readily be regarded as " areal ", either, since English and continental West Germanic were not a linguistic area ).

" Heathen ", " Heathenism " or " Heathenry " as a self-designation of adherents of Germanic neopaganism ( Theodism in particular ) appeared in the late 1990s.

In the meantime, Germanic mysticism in Germany and Switzerland had developed into baroque forms such as Guido von List's " Armanism ", from the 1900s merging into antisemitic and national mysticist ( völkisch ) currents, notably with Lanz von Liebenfels ' Guido von List Society and Ostara magazine, which with the rise of Nazism were partially absorbed into Nazi occultism.

* In Germanic languages, except English, East Sea is used: Afrikaans ( Oossee ), Danish ( Østersøen ), Dutch ( Oostzee ), German ( Ostsee ), Icelandic and Faroese ( Eystrasalt ), Norwegian ( Østersjøen ), and Swedish ( Östersjön ).

From his sophomore year he additionally began to focus on Germanic languages completing coursework in Gothic, Old High German, Old Saxon, Icelandic, Dutch, Swedish and Danish.

The word friend itself has cognates in the other Germanic languages ; but the Scandinavian ones ( like Swedish frände, Danish frænde ) predominatly mean " relative " ( but may also mean soulmate ).

Modern Germanic peoples are the Scandinavians ( Norwegians, Swedish, Danish, Icelanders, and Faroese ), Germans, Austrians, Alemannic Swiss, Liechtensteiners, Luxembourgers, the Dutch, Flemings, Afrikaners, Frisians, the English and others who still speak languages derived from the ancestral Germanic dialects.

Kennings are virtually absent from the surviving corpus of continental West Germanic verse ; the Old Saxon Heliand contains only one example: lîk-hamo “ body-raiment ” = “ body ” ( Heliand 3453 b ), a compound which, in any case, is normal in West Germanic and North Germanic prose ( Old English līchama, Old High German lîchamo, lîchinamo, Dutch lichaam, Old Icelandic líkamr, líkami, Old Swedish līkhamber, Swedish lekamen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål legeme, Norwegian Nynorsk lekam ).

Today Old Norse has developed into the modern North Germanic languages ( Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish ), and although distinct languages there is still considerable mutual intelligibility.

It is possible that the Latin word was loaned into Old English, and only from Old English reached other Germanic languages via the Anglo-Saxon mission to the continent, giving Old Icelandic prestr, Old Swedish präster, Old High German priast.

In English, as in other Germanic languages, the plough was traditionally known by other names, e. g. Old English sulh, Old High German medela, geiza, huohili, and Old Norse arðr ( Swedish årder ), all presumably referring to the scratch plough ( ard ).

Both words are thought to be derived from Common Germanic * jeχʷla -, and are cognate to Gothic ( fruma ) jiuleis and Old Norse ( Icelandic and Faroese ) jól ( Danish and Swedish jul and Norwegian jul or jol ) as well as ýlir.

The word itself, Old English bread, is common in various forms to many Germanic languages, such as Frisian brea, Dutch brood, German Brot, Swedish bröd, and Norwegian and Danish brød ; it has been claimed to be derived from the root of brew.

The word has several cognates in modern Germanic languages, such as German Scheiße, Dutch schijt, Swedish skit, Icelandic skítur, Norwegian skitt etc.

However, all modern Germanic languages save English and Scots retain the more general sense: for example, German Tier, Alemannic Diere or Tiere, Pennsylvania Dutch Gedier, Dutch dier, Afrikaans dier, Limburgish diere, Norwegian dyr, Swedish djur, Danish dyr, Icelandic dýr, Faroese dýr, West Frisian dier, and North Frisian diarten, all of which mean " animal.

The name of the Vandals has often been connected to that of Vendel, the name of a province in Uppland, Sweden, which is also eponymous of the Vendel period of Swedish prehistory, corresponding to the late Germanic Iron Age leading up to the Viking Age.

There are cognates in most Germanic languages, such as the Swedish, Faroese and Nynorsk ; West Frisian and Middle Low German ; Middle Dutch ; Dutch ; Middle Low German ; Middle High German (""); German, and perhaps Old English.

Many Germanic languages however adopted the Latin word ‘ fenestra ’ to describe a window with glass, such as standard Swedish ‘ fönster ’, or German ‘ Fenster ’.

The Latin term, applied to a Germanic custom, was adopted from a Germanic term, * morgangeba ( compare Early English morgengifu, German Morgengabe, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål Morgengave, Norwegian Nynorsk Morgongåve and Swedish Morgongåva ).

For example, Germanic languages like English, Dutch, and German have " fortis " consonants ( as exhibited in come, komen, and kommen, respectively ) that exhibit a longer stop closure and shorter preceding vowels than their " lenis " counterparts ( as exhibited in grass, goal, and Gras ).

The known Cimbri chiefs have names that look Celtic, including Boiorix ( which may mean " King of the Boii " or, more literally, " King of Strikers "), Gaesorix ( which means " Spear King "), and Lugius ( which may be named after the Celtic god Lugus ), although this may not mean that they are Celtic as the elements could work in Germanic ( compare the name of the Vandalic king Gaiseric, which is likely identical to Gaesorix ).

The Germanic peoples had altars erected to the " Mothers and Matrons " and held celebrations specific to them ( such as the Anglo-Saxon " Mothers-night "), and various other female deities are attested among the Germanic peoples, such as Nerthus attested in an early account of the Germanic peoples, Ēostre attested among the pagan Anglo-Saxons and Sinthgunt attested among the pagan continental Germanic peoples.

The other name " wolfram " ( or " volfram "), used for example in most European ( especially Germanic and Slavic ) languages, is derived from the mineral wolframite, and this is also the origin of its chemical symbol, W. The name " wolframite " is derived from German " wolf rahm " (" wolf soot " or " wolf cream "), the name given to tungsten by Johan Gottschalk Wallerius in 1747.

Cognates outside of Germanic are Avestan yare " year ", Greek " year, season, period of time " ( whence " hour "), Old Church Slavonic jaru and Latin hornus " of this year ".

Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements frith " protection " ( or alternatively farð " journey, travel "), and nanth " courage ".

The English noun Monday derived sometime before 1200 from monedæi, which itself developed from Old English ( around 1000 ) mōnandæg and mōndæg ( literally meaning " moon's day "), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian mōnadeig, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch mānendach ( modern Dutch Maandag ), Old High German mānetag ( modern German Montag ), and Old Norse mánadagr ( Swedish and Norwegian nynorsk måndag, Icelandic mánudagur.

The English noun Sunday derived sometime before 1250 from sunedai, which itself developed from Old English ( before 700 ) Sunnandæg ( literally meaning " sun's day "), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian sunnandei, Old Saxon sunnundag, Middle Dutch sonnendach ( modern Dutch zondag ), Old High German sunnun tag ( modern German Sonntag ), and Old Norse sunnudagr ( Danish and Norwegian søndag, Icelandic sunnudagur and Swedish söndag ).

The Germanic term is a Germanic interpretation of Latin dies solis (" day of the sun "), which is a translation of the Ancient Greek heméra helíou.

The name was Latinized Theodoricus or Theodericus, originally from a Common Germanic form * þeudo-rīks (" people-ruler "), which would have resulted in a Gothic þiuda-reiks.

He was also known to refer to the socialist states in eastern Europe by their full official titles ( for instance using " German Democratic Republic " over " East Germany " and " Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia " over " Yugoslavia "), and also referred to east European towns with their Slavonic rather than Germanic names, further confusing his students who were familiar with the latter.

The Thule Society (; ), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum (" Study Group for Germanic Antiquity "), was a German occultist and völkisch group in Munich, named after a mythical northern country from Greek legend.

The Nibelungenlied is based on pre-Christian Germanic heroic motifs ( the " Nibelungensaga "), which include oral traditions and reports based on historic events and individuals of the 5th and 6th centuries.

Related names to Dyauṣ Pitṛ appear in the Greek as Zeus Pater ( accusative Día, genitive Diós ), in Latin as Jupiter ( from archaic Latin Iovis Pater, " Sky father "), in Slavic mythology as Div, and Germanic and Norse mythology as Tyr or Ziu.

It comes from Medieval Latin cortem, accusative of cors, meaning " enclosure ", " estate ", suffixed to the Germanic patronym Buolo ( meaning " friend, brother, kinsman "), thus having the meaning of " estate of Buolo ".

# " God's Hill ", from the old British word " Duw ", meaning God ( cf Latin " Deus "), and " burg ", meaning a hill or " Tiu's Hill ", derived from the Germanic god Tiu from the same Indo-European origin.