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In 1841, a scholar named Georg Waitz was cataloguing manuscripts in the cathedral chapter library at Merseburg when he found something unusual. In the margin of a 9th-century liturgical manuscript, written in Old High German, were two short healing charms. They were...
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Tacitus was not writing a field guide to Germanic religion. He was writing a political critique of Roman decadence in the form of an ethnographic account of the Germanic peoples. The Germania, written in 98 CE, praises Germanic virtue, simplicity, and moral vigor as...
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Every winter, across the German-speaking world, the dead ride through the night sky. In Middle High German they were called Wuotanes Her, Odin’s Army. In modern German, Wutendes Heer, the Furious Host, or Wilde Jagd, the Wild Hunt. The scholar Jacob Grimm...
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