Continental Germanic mythology

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Continental Germanic mythology formed an element within

• Paulus Diaconus
  )
• Nordendorf fibula, Pforzen buckle
  )
• Frankish mythology, Donar's Oak
  )
• Saxons (see: Irminsul)
• Saint Willibrord
  )
• Baiuvarii

Paganism

Compared to

Texts

Middle Low German

• Ermenrichs Tod

Old High German

• Lay of Hildebrand
• Muspilli
• The Merseburg Incantations

Middle High German

• Nibelungenlied
• Kudrun
• Weyland
• Dietrich von Bern

See also

• Mannaz
• Common Germanic deities
• Germanic king
• Norse deities
• Anglo-Saxon polytheism
• List of Germanic deities

Sources

• Jacob Grimm: Deutsche Mythologie. 1835.
• Wolfgang Golther: Handbuch der Germanischen Mythologie. Stuttgart 1908.
• Jan de Vries
  : Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte. Berlin 1956.
• Åke V. Ström: Germanische Religion. Stuttgart 1975.
• M. Axboe; U. Clavadetscher; K. Düwel; K. Hauck; L. v. Padberg: Die Goldbrakteaten der Völkerwanderungszeit. Ikonographischer Katalog. München 1985-1989.
• Rudolf Simek: Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie. Stuttgart 2. Aufl. 1995.
  ISBN 3-520-36802-1
• Rudolf Simek: Religion und Mythologie der Germanen. Darmstadt 2003.
  ISBN 3-534-16910-7