The West Germanic and Anglo-Saxon deities attested outside the Old Norse literary corpus, among them the earth goddess Nerthus and the goddess Eostre, each known chiefly through a single ancient outside source rather than a native mythological cycle.
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Era of AttestationAttested from Roman-era accounts such as Tacitus's Germania (98 CE) describing continental Germanic religion, before the Christianization of the continental Germanic peoples across the early medieval period. 1 Correspondences & Relations
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Why this is disputed. Maypole custom is most strongly attested in Germanic-speaking Europe; the pre-Christian origin and meaning of the custom is a genuine, unresolved folklore debate.
Source Maypole Dance (Encyclopaedia Britannica)The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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1. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source Dictionary of Northern Mythology
Rudolf Simek, translated by Angela Hall, D. S. Brewer, 1993Simek's entries on the continental Germanic pantheon figuresView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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