Mead is featured in many Germanic myths and folktales such as Beowulf, as well as in other popular works that draw on these myths.

Rydberg, however, believed that most of the Germanic myths could be fit into such a chronology.

As was the case in the Celtic mythologies, in Germanic myths apples were particularly associated with the Otherworld.

Some claim that notions of the Man in the Moon are a survival of the masculine anthropomorphic figure of the moon in Germanic myths.

Important motifs in German Romanticism are travelling, nature, and Germanic myths.

Baldanders or The Soon-Another is a creature of Germanic literary myth that features protean properties.

In his interpretation, Paul's narrative represents a late distortion of the Germanic myths and rituals contained in the oral tradition.

This in turn was based on motifs from even older Germanic myths.

Goebbels recommended that the remaining authors should concentrate on books themed on Germanic myths and the concept of blood and soil.

The plot is reminiscient of the Germanic myth of Sigmund and Brynhilde.