Publishers Weekly

Encyclopedia of Norse and Germanic Folklore, Mythology, and Magic

With sources ranging from the 13th-century Poetic and Prose Eddas to the 20th-century works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Lecouteux's encyclopedia covers Norse and Germanic gods, including crowd-pleasers Odin, ...
La Brújula Verde

The sculpture of a snake-bodied deity, a hybrid from Roman-Germanic mythology, found at the Roman fort of Stuttgart

The newly found sculpture of the giant together with the stone of the four gods discovered in 1908. The latter is in the repository of the Württemberg State Museum. Both stones were part of a giant ...
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Samba and Sauerkraut - German Legends at the Rio Carnival

German mythology and the carnival in Rio - how are they supposed to fit together? One of the city’s most famous samba schools, the "Unidos da Tijuca,” has taken up a very special challenge - ...
Phys.org

Shillings, gods and runes: Clues in language suggest a Semitic superpower in ancient northern Europe

Dido building Carthage, or The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire. Joseph Mallord William Turner, c 1815. Credit: The National Gallery, CC BY-NC-SA Remember when Australians paid in shillings and pence?
The New York Times

THE ORDER OF HARUGARI; It Was Founded in New-York on German Mythology. STARTED FOR DEFENSE -- PERPETUATED FOR CHARITY. Its Lodges Are Found in Nearly All the States, and Its ...

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