Germanic paganism

Mead (, ), also called honey wine, and hydromel (particularly when low in alcohol content), is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey mixed with water, and sometimes with added ingredients such as fruits, spices, grains, or hops. The alcoholic content ranges from about 3.5% ABV to more than 20%. Possibly the most ancient alcoholic drink, the defining characteristic of mead is that the majority of the beverage's fermentable sugar is derived from honey. It may be still, carbonated, or naturally sparkling, and despite a common misconception that mead is exclusively sweet, it can also be d

battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE

thumb|250px|Æsir gathered around the body of Baldr. Painting by [[Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1817]]

Yule (, ) is a winter festival and time of the year historically observed by heathen Germanic peoples that was later merged with the festival of Christmas during the process of Christianisation. The oldest accounts describe two Yule-months around the winter solstice in early, and sometimes explicitly heathen, Germanic calendars.

corpse conserved in a bog

thumb|upright=1.35|Dancing around the midsummer pole, in Åmmeberg, Sweden A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place.

body of mythology associated with historical Germanic paganism

Goðafoss () is a waterfall in northern Iceland. It is located along the country's main ring road at the junction with the Sprengisandur highland road, about 45 minutes from Akureyri. The water of the river Skjálfandafljót falls from a height of 12 metres over a width of 30 metres. A 1.8-mile hiking trail loops around the waterfall area.

ethnic religion practiced by the Germanic peoples from the Iron Age until Christianisation

ancient Northern Hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday

A hulder (or huldra) is a seductive forest creature found in Scandinavian folklore. Her name derives from a root meaning "covered" or "secret". In Norwegian folklore, she is known as huldra ("the [archetypal] hulder", though folklore presupposes that there is an entire Hulder race and not just a single individual). She is known as the skogsrå "forest spirit" or Tallemaja "pine tree Mary" in Swedish folklore, and '''''' in Sámi folklore. Her name suggests that she is originally the same being as the völva divine figure Huld and the German Holda.

medieval spells written in Old High German

In Old Norse, '''' (sometimes anglicized as seidhr, seidh, seidr, seithr, seith, or seid'') was a type of magic practiced in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age. The practice of is believed to be a form of magic which is related to both the telling and the shaping of the future. Connected to the Old Norse religion, its origins are largely unknown, and its practice gradually declined after the Christianization of Scandinavia. Accounts of later made it into sagas and other literary sources, while further evidence of it has been unearthed by archaeologists. Various scholars have d

campaigns and insurrections (772–804) between the Carolingian Empire and Saxons in what is now northwestern Germany; resulted in the incorporation of Saxony into the Frankish realm and their forcible conversion from Germanic paganism to Catholicism

archaeological artefact

thumb|Valknut variations.On the left :wikt:unicursal|unicursal trefoil forms; on the right tricursal linked triangle forms.

'''''' (, translation: "wolf's hook") or '''' () is a heraldic charge from mainly Germany and eastern France, which was inspired by medieval European wolf traps that consisted of a Z-shaped metal hook (called the Wolfsangel, or the crampon in French) that was hung by a chain from a crescent-shaped metal bar (called the ', or the in French). The stylized symbol of the Z-shape (also called the ', meaning the "double-hook") can include a central horizontal bar to give a Ƶ-symbol, which can be reversed and/or rotated; it is sometimes mistaken as being an ancient rune due to its similarity to the "

right|thumb|300px|Map showing the approximate locations of the major Germanic tribes in and around the geographical region of Germania as mentioned in Tacitus' work, the Germania

massacre

place where ancient Swedish kings were elected

ancient or modern magic performed with runes or runestones

thumb|Poster for the Norwegian magazine Urd (magazine)|Urd by [[Andreas Bloch and Olaf Krohn|upright]] Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to Modern English weird, whose meaning has drifted towards an adjectival use with a more general sense of "supernatural" or "uncanny", or simply "unexpected".

gold torc-like necklace

thumb|upright|Page from the about the Ægishjálmur (occult symbol)|Ægishjálmur occult symbol.

Old Germanic term for spell or incantation

archaeological site at Øster Sottrup, Denmark

spiritual practice

historical male hairstyle ascribed to the tribe of the Germanic Suebi

A ' (Old Norse, ) or ' (Old English, ) is a type of altar or cult site, possibly consisting of a heap of stones, used in Norse religion, as opposed to a roofed hall used as a hof (temple).

Northumbrian saint

In historical Germanic society, ' (Old Norse, pronunciation: , in runic: , ; ) was a term for a social stigma implying the loss of honour and the status of a villain. A person affected with the stigma is considered a nithing' (, in runic: , , ).

Germanic pagan temple

significant numbers in Norse mythology and paganism

literary form with examples in Old English, Old Norse, and Icelandic

shrine or sacred place in Germanic paganism

manuscript, short before 800

legal code issued by Charlemagne and promulgated amongst the Saxons during the Saxon Wars

Primitive rituals based on folklore, pre-christian Alpine traditions

Norse short story

thumb|right|300px|A drinking scene on an image stone from [[Gotland, in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm]]

Scandinavian Winter festival and period

traditional religious rituals practiced by Norse pagans in Scandinavia

original religion of the Goths