The conception that diseases and death come from invisible shots sent by supernatural beings, or magicians is common in Germanic and Norse mythology.

Category: Germanic mythology

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.

The Chaoskampf motif entered Greek mythology and ultimately Christian mythology, although the serpent motif may already be part of prehistoric Indo-European mythology as well, based on comparative evidence of Indic and Germanic material.

An elf ( plural: elves ) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore.

Scholars have theorized about whether or not Freyja and the goddess Frigg ultimately stem from a single goddess common among the Germanic peoples ; about her connection to the valkyries, female battlefield choosers of the slain ; and her relation to other goddesses and figures in Germanic mythology, including the thrice-burnt and thrice-reborn Gullveig / Heiðr, the goddesses Gefjon, Skaði, Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa, Menglöð, and the 1st century BCE " Isis " of the Suebi.

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.

Surviving accounts of Germanic mythology and later Norse mythology contain numerous tales and mentions of female goddesses, female giantesses, and divine female figures.

Category: Germanic mythology

Germanic mythology, reinforced by occult ideas, became a substitute religion for him.

Grimm says that Hel is an example of a " half-goddess ;" " one who cannot be shown to be either wife or daughter of a god, and who stands in a dependent relation to higher divinities " and that " half-goddesses " stand higher than " half-gods " in Germanic mythology.

In this neopagan concept, the god is also referred to as Bran, a Welsh mythological figure, Wayland, the smith in Germanic mythology, and Herne, a horned figure from English folklore.

Midgard ( an anglicised form of Old Norse ; Old English, Old High German, Gothic Midjun-gards ; literally " middle enclosure ") is the name for the world ( in the sense of oikoumene ) inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology, and specifically one of the Nine Worlds and in Norse mythology.

Such distortions of Germanic mythology were denounced by J. R. R. Tolkien, e. g. in a 1941 letter where he speaks of Hitler's corruption of "... that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved and tried to present in its true light.

Each game drew its inspiration from a different culture and mythology ( in order, Germanic / fairy tale ; Middle Eastern / Arabian Nights ; Egyptian / African ; Slavic folklore / Eastern European folklore ; and finally Greco-Mediterranean ) with the hero facing increasingly powerful opponents with help from characters who become increasingly familiar from game to game.

In Germanic mythology this is Sol, in Vedic Surya, and in Greek Helios ( occasionally referred to as Titan ) and ( sometimes ) as Apollo.

In Germanic mythology the Sun is female and the Moon is male.

The Brothers Grimm rejected several tales for their collection, though told orally to them by Germans, because the tales derived from Perrault, and they concluded they were thereby French and not German tales ; an oral version of Bluebeard was thus rejected, and the tale of Briar Rose, clearly related to Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, was included only because Jacob Grimm convinced his brother that the figure of Brynhildr, from much earlier Norse mythology, proved that the sleeping princess was authentically Germanic folklore.

In Germanic mythology, a dwarf ( Old English dweorg, Old Norse dvergr, Old High German zwerc and gitwerc ) is a being that dwells in mountains and in the earth, and is associated with wisdom, smithing, mining, and crafting.

Category: Germanic mythology

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.

Some scholars have speculated that Belinda derives from the Germanic given name Betlindis, or possibly a contracted form of Old High German Betlinde, meaning " bright serpent " or " bright linden tree.

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

Some of the French dialects spoken in the French and Swiss Alps derive from Old Provençal ; the German dialects derive from Germanic tribal languages.

The common name alder is derived from an old Germanic root, also found to be the translation of the Old French verne for alder or copse of 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.

Theodism, or Þéodisc Geléafa ( Old English: " tribal belief ") is another form of Germanic neopaganism that developed in the United States contemporaneous with Asatru.

Theodism is focused on the lore, beliefs and social structure-particularly the concept of thew ( Old English þeaw ) or " customary law "-of various specific Germanic tribes.

The word comes from Old English " bōc " which ( itself ) comes from the Germanic root "* bōk -", cognate to beech.

Although its author is unknown, its themes and subject matter are rooted in Germanic heroic poetry, in Anglo-Saxon tradition recited and cultivated by Old English poets called scops.

The original Old English language was then influenced by two waves of invasion ; the first was by language speakers of the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family ; they conquered and colonised parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries.

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 Old Burgundian language, an East Germanic language spoken by the Burgundians.

The word crochet comes from Old French crochet, hook, diminutive of croche, feminine of croc, of Germanic origin.

* The Danish tongue or Old Norse, the parent language of all North Germanic languages

By the 8th century, the common Germanic language of Scandinavia, Proto-Norse, had undergone some changes and evolved into Old Norse.

Old English was a highly inflected language, as befits its Indo-European and especially its Germanic linguistic ancestry, but its declensions greatly simplified as it evolved into Modern English.

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.

Other later Germanic forms include Middle English, Old Frisian ( adjective and noun ), Old Saxon, Old High German, and evil Gothic.

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.

Old Norse Frigg ( genitive Friggjar ), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frig are derived from Common Germanic Frijjō.