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  • Thumbnail for Proto-Indo-European mythology
    Unicode combining characters and Latin characters. Proto-Indo-European mythology is the body of myths and deities associated with the Proto-Indo-Europeans...
    141 KB (17,177 words) - 13:17, 12 November 2024
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    deity in the Baltic pantheon after Dievas. In both Lithuanian and Latvian mythology, he is documented as the god of sky, thunder, lightning, storms, rain...
    19 KB (2,162 words) - 11:40, 6 November 2024
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    Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico (chapter 6.26) from the Hercynian Forest in the year 53 BC is most certainly to be interpreted as a reindeer:...
    202 KB (22,079 words) - 04:42, 11 November 2024
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    dialects spoken by the Suevi, Bavarii, Alemanni and Lombards around the Hercynian Forest and the Northeastern German plain. Maurer asserted that the cladistic...
    6 KB (485 words) - 02:34, 10 September 2024
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    smaller version of the Alps which runs south of it. Within it is the Hercynian forest, and within this forest are tribes of Suebi "just as the tribes...
    61 KB (7,997 words) - 14:06, 17 November 2024
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    modern Schwaben and the Boii further east near the Hercynian forest. In addition, near the Hercynian forest Caesar believed that the Celtic Tectosages...
    69 KB (8,883 words) - 14:41, 18 October 2024
  • Myrkviðr (category Locations in Norse mythology)
    Wolfings from 1888, and later by J. R. R. Tolkien in his fiction. Járnviðr Hercynian Forest, an ancient forest of southern Germany Miriquidi Simek (2007:224)...
    8 KB (842 words) - 23:15, 3 August 2024
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    even gods had to traverse it with difficulty. Romans referred to the Hercynian Forest, in Germania, as an enchanted place; though most references in...
    25 KB (3,337 words) - 17:55, 12 November 2024
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    Dacians (redirect from Dacian mythology)
    the Hercynian forest. According to Strabo's Geographica, written around AD 20, the Getes (Geto-Dacians) bordered the Suevi who lived in the Hercynian Forest...
    124 KB (15,208 words) - 18:43, 20 October 2024
  • Perkwunos', i.e. the [wooded] mountains), Celtic: *ferkunyā, Gaulish: the Hercynian (Hercynia) forest or mountains, ancient name of the Ardennes and the Black...
    62 KB (6,792 words) - 21:42, 3 November 2024
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    name of the area occupied by Maroboduus, cutting a passage through the Hercynian forest which bounded the region." The second ancient writer to mention...
    23 KB (2,730 words) - 12:43, 12 May 2024
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    classical authors place the new settlement area of the Marcomanni within the Hercynian Forest, in an area near present day Bohemia and probably within it. By...
    54 KB (7,477 words) - 03:37, 29 October 2024
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    Rhine for an indeterminate distance, bounded by the Baltic Sea and the Hercynian Forest. Pliny the Elder and Tacitus placed the eastern border at the Vistula...
    163 KB (20,237 words) - 12:30, 30 October 2024
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    Romuva (temple) (category Lithuanian mythology)
    von Dusburg was the most important symbol of his power. Hercynian Forest Lithuanian mythology Romuva (religion) Bojtár, Endre (1999). Foreword to the...
    6 KB (778 words) - 00:44, 30 August 2024
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    peaks and valleys are characterised by steep ridges formed during the Hercynian period of folding and mountain formation some 300 million years ago. When...
    43 KB (5,204 words) - 17:26, 5 November 2024
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    wooded and sun-less far north, between the shores of the Oceanus and the Hercynian Forest, and were the same people known as the Cimbri; Since the Cimmerians...
    169 KB (20,510 words) - 14:27, 14 November 2024
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    was more impassable than the German had been recently, referring to the Hercynian Forest (Black Forest) first opened by Drusus and Ahenobarbus. There is...
    60 KB (4,728 words) - 19:00, 26 October 2024
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    Ordovician strata which experienced an intense and widespread early Hercynian karstification. The effect of this event are e.g. paleokarst reservoirs...
    81 KB (8,853 words) - 23:45, 16 November 2024
  • Luna forest and iron mines, with the Quadi still further north and the Hercynian forest above them. West of the Baemi on the Danube were the Adrabaecampi...
    3 KB (468 words) - 16:36, 25 September 2022
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    into orthogneiss during the Hercynian orogeny. Overall, Italian Paleozoic rocks commonly show evidence of the Hercynian orogeny in the Alps, Sardinia...
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