Rheda (mythology)
In
De temporum ratione
In chapter 15 of his work
Theories
19th-century scholar Jacob Grimm notes, while no other source mentions the goddesses Rheda and Ēostre, saddling Bede, a "father of the church, who everywhere keeps heathenism at a distance, and tells us less than he knows" with the invention of the goddesses Rheda and Ēostre would be uncritical, and that "there is nothing improbable in them, nay the first of them [Rheda] is justified by clear traces in the vocabularies of the German tribes." Grimm proposes a connection between *Hrēþe and the Old High German female personal name Hruada. Grimm theorizes that the Old High German form of the goddess name Rheda was *Hrouda.[3]
Modern influence
Appendix D of
Notes
References
- Giles, John Allen (1843). The Complete Works of the Venerable Bede, in the Original Latin, Collated with the Manuscripts, and Various Print Editions, Accompanied by a New English Translation of the Historical Works, and a Life of the Author. Vol. VI: Scientific Tracts and Appendix. London: Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane.
- Grimm, Jacob (James Steven Stallybrass Trans.) (1882). Teutonic Mythology: Translated from the Fourth Edition with Notes and Appendix Vol. I. London: George Bell and Sons.
- ISBN 0-85991-513-1
- Staver, Ruth Johnston (2005). A Companion to Beowulf. ISBN 0-313-33224-X
- Wallis, Faith (Trans.) (1999). Bede, the Reckoning of Time. ISBN 0-85323-693-3
- Wilson, David Raoul (1992). Anglo-Saxon Paganism. ISBN 0-415-01897-8
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