Germanic deity

Names with a Latin element may suggest continuity of settlement, while some place names have names of pagan Germanic deities.

The town name derives from the Germanic deity Tyr and could be translated into Tyr's Stead.

Similarly, in the English language, six of the days of the week are named after the Germanic deities of Anglo-Saxon paganism.

Interpretatio germanica is the practice by the Germanic peoples of identifying Roman gods with the names of Germanic deities.

Examples are this include the Wild Hunt and Herne the Hunter which relate to the Germanic deity Woden.

However, as the Latin names were translated into early Germanic still before Christianisation, the days remain named for Germanic deities according to their interpretatio germanica.

While they receive less mention, numerous other gods and goddesses appear in the source material (for a list of these deities, see List of Germanic deities).

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle derives the royal lines of the Heptarchy form a common ancestor, Woden, a euhemerized version of the Germanic deity.

The characters in the show have visions of Odin and/or pray to several Germanic deities, such as Thor, Freya, Freyr, and Loki, among others.

Irminenschaft (or, Irminism, Irminenreligion) is a current of Ariosophy based on a Germanic deity Irmin which is supposedly reconstructed from literaric, linguistic and oonomastic sources.

This poem includes references to magical runes and the pre-Christian Germanic deity Wotan (Odin), but it is mentioned neither by Goodrick-Clarke nor by Fest.

Also known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 10; to the Royal Navy she was Raider E. She was named after the Germanic deity Thor.

See list of Germanic deities for a complete list of Germanic gods and goddesses, including those for whom there is insufficient attestation to produce Common Germanic reconstructions.

It has been suggested that the Germanic deity Wodan (English Woden) was influenced by Gaulish Mercury (see "triplism" above), and his name is possibly reflected in Germanic Loki.

Many of the deities are the same as West Germanic deities, especially in the north: Wodan is Dutch for Woden/Odin, the god of war and leader of the Wild Hunt.

The Alaisiagae were Germanic deities who were worshipped in Roman Britain, altar-stones raised to them having been recovered in the United Kingdom at Housesteads Fort, Hadrian's Wall in England.

No name has been decided on; Markus Klaura has proposed "Isis Noreia," for the goddesses Isis and Noreia (the latter a Germanic deity, the Roman equivalent of Isis).

A year earlier, in 723, Boniface (then still known under his original name "Winfrid"), had cut down Donar's Oak, one of the most important sacred sites of the Chatti, to prove the superiority of the Christian God over Thor and the Germanic deities.

Two graves from a well-preserved sixth and seventh-century Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Finglesham have yielded a bronze pendant and a gilt buckle with designs that are related to each other and may be symbolic of religious activity involving the Germanic deity Woden.

The tradition primarily honours Germanic deities such as Woden and Freya, and are seen as representations of the Wiccan deities of the Horned God and the Mother Goddess, and uses a minimal set of the usual ceremonial tools and a spear.

Irmin might also have been an epithet of the god Ziu (Tyr) in early Germanic times, only later transferred to Odin, as certain scholars subscribe to the idea that Odin replaced Tyr as the chief Germanic deity at the onset of the Migration Period.