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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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Attestation
Era of Attestation
Attested 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

Pantheon Members

Eostre, DeitiesNerthus, Deities

Pantheon Of

Continental Germanic Paganism, Religions
Sources
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
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