Continental Germanic mythology
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Paganism
Compared to North Germanic and, to a lesser extent, Anglo-Saxon mythology, examples of Continental Germanic paganism are extremely fragmentary. Besides a handful of brief Elder Futhark inscriptions the lone, genuinely pagan Continental Germanic documents are the short Old High German Merseburg Incantations. However, pagan mythological elements were preserved in later literature, notably in Middle High German epic poetry, but also in German, Swiss, and Dutch folklore.
Texts
Middle Low German
- Ermenrichs Tod
Old High German
- Lay of Hildebrand
- Muspilli
- The Merseburg Incantations
Middle High German
- Nibelungenlied
- Kudrun
- Weyland
- Dietrich von Bern
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