Divine Displacement: Týr, Óðinn, and Their Early Germanic Antecedents.
The reconstructed name of the early Germanic god *Wōdanaz is generally traced to a Proto-Indo-European root *u̯ā̆t- meaning 'spiritually aroused, possessed'. The signification contrasts sharply with the attributes of the primal Germanic sky and war god *Tīwaz, whose name references the bright sky. I...
| Publicado en: | Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Älteren Germanistik Vol. 82; no. 1; pp. 39 - 71 |
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2022
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