Germanic gods

right|thumb|upright=1.3|''Thor's Fight with the Giants (Tors strid med jättarna) by (1872). Thor (from ) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, storms, strength, protection, fertility, and farmers. Besides Old Norse , the deity occurs in Old English as ', in Old Frisian as '', in Old Saxon as , and in Old High German as , all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym ', meaning 'Thunder'.

thumb|Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, as imagined by Georg von Rosen (1886)

thumb|right|"Each arrow overshot his head" (1902) by Elmer Boyd Smith. Baldr (Old Norse also Balder, Baldur) is a god in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, he is a son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, and has numerous brothers, such as Thor and Váli. In wider Germanic mythology, the god was known in Old English as ', and in Old High German as ', all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym ('hero' or 'prince').

thumb|One-handed Týr, by Lorenz Frølich (1895)

thumb|upright|Forseti, 1680thumb|Forseti Seated in Judgment (1881) by Carl Emil Doepler

thumb|A depiction of Máni and Sól (1895) by Lorenz Frølich.

Germanic mythological blacksmith

In Germanic mythology, Seaxnēat (pronounced ) or Saxnôt was the national god of the Saxons. He is sometimes identified with either Tīwaz or Fraujaz (Old Norse Týr and Freyr).

thumb|Illustration, Saxon Chronicle, 1492 thumb|17th-century engraving depicting Charlemagne ordering a statue of Krodo destroyed Krodo was a Germanic god of the Saxons, according to the 1492 Saxon Chronicle incunable probably written by the Brunswick goldsmith Conrad Bothe (c. 1475 – c. 1501) and printed in the studio of Peter Schöffer at Mainz. He is supposed to have been similar to the Roman god Saturn. Modern historians characterize the figure of Krodo as a fake (Janzen 2017).

a pair of young male brothers worshipped by the Naharvali, a tribe of ancient Germanic peoples

Mercury god of Germanic tribe of Cimbri