Germanic mythology
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- mythology
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- English mythology
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- Germanic mythology
- indigenous to
- Germanic people
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Nerthus (1905) by Emil Doepler depicts Nerthus, an early Germanic goddess whose name developed into Njörðr among the North Germanic peoples
Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples, including Norse mythology, Anglo-Saxon mythology, and Continental Germanic mythology. It was a key element of Germanic paganism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Germanic mythology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.