What was Germanic Paganism Like BEFORE the Vikings?

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  @aalin5701 · 5 years ago · pinned

  Now imagining Celts and Germans going to scared groves to yell poetry at each other

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• HO

  @HobbitWarrior · 5 years ago

  I found the most impressive thing in The Gallic War was that the ground never buckled under the towering mass of Julius Caesar's ego.

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• ME

  @mentats11 · 5 years ago

  Heathenry is one part religion and two parts University coursework.

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• TR

  @trevorjhansen · 5 years ago

  Beginning of the video: &quot;this might be considered more advanced stuff&quot;<br>Three minutes later: &quot;I need to pull out muppets, I&apos;m just teaching you about the days of the week&quot;

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• CH

  @ChoKiba · 5 years ago

  1) I loved the nerding out. Never stop nerding out for us.<br>2) Calling the Poetic Edda a weird remix album is probably the best thing ever. I cannot now I think it and it makes me ache that we don’t have the original tales

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• ED

  @Edward-Flanders · 2 years ago

  Im just glad that you don&apos;t only talk about the vikings.. The biggest frustration is when they talk about &quot;the germanic&quot; but then only talk about the vikings.

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• FA

  @fabienlehenaff2742 · 5 years ago

  Key word; animism <br><br>Animism is the core of polytheistic belief systems

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• RI

  @richardmangelmann4975 · 5 years ago

  German here, its funny that so many of the tribe names actually lived on. The one you mentioned called Swaebi sounds a lot like the Schwaben, people from a certain region of the country

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• CA

  @cafra11972 · 5 years ago

  I’m a &nbsp;Heathen and a History teacher so I’ve found my spiritual home on two fronts. Please - never stop nerding out 💚💚

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• WA

  @wargriffin5 · 5 years ago

  &quot;So you can imagine incredible rituals, in which the legends were sung by those leading the ritual in order to pass on their stories and familiarize everyone with these songs. This gives a whole new view of what we&apos;ve lost over the course of time...&quot;<br><br><br>Meanwhile, at a local Rock concert:

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• AB

  @abigailhouse11 · 5 years ago

  “Wednesday is Odin’s day” will forever live rent free in my head 🥰

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• FI

  @firebird4909 · 5 years ago

  If you look at the swedish and finnish versions of the word firday: swedish fredag and the finnish perjantai (this on might be harder to see, but the finnish translation for Freya is Freija so it&apos;s easy to see how freijan day could have become perijantai) I think it is safe to say that Friday is just the English trying to pronounce Freya&apos;s day

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