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Vé (shrine)

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In Germanic paganism, a vé (Old Norse) or wēoh (Old English) is a type of shrine or sacred enclosure. [1]

64 relations: Ancient Rome, Årdal, Östergötland, Boydell & Brewer, Common Era, Dís, Denmark, Finnur Jónsson, Flå, Freyja, Freyr, German language, Germania (book), Germanic paganism, Germanic peoples, Glavendrup stone, Glenr, Gothic language, Hof (Germanic temple), Iceland, Jelling, Jutland, List of Germanic deities, Nationalencyklopedin, Närke, Njörðr, Norderhov, Norse rituals, Odense, Odin, Old English, Old Norse, Old Norse literature, Old Norse religion, Orion Publishing Group, Prose Edda, Proto-Germanic language, Rindr, Ringsaker, Rudolf Simek, Sande, Vestfold, Scandinavia, Shrine, Skaði, Skald, Skáldskaparmál, Skövde, Skúli Þórsteinsson, Snorri Sturluson, Sweden, ..., Tacitus, Temple, Thor, Trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks, Tveit, Tysnes, Ullr, Uppland, Vaksdal, Västergötland, Veøy, Viborg, Denmark, Vili and Vé, Vyborg. Expand index (14 more) »

Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Årdal

Årdal is a municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.

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Östergötland

Östergötland (English exonym: East Gothland) is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish) in the south of Sweden.

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Boydell & Brewer

Boydell & Brewer is an academic press based in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England that specializes in publishing historical and critical works.

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Common Era

Common Era or Current Era (CE) is one of the notation systems for the world's most widely used calendar era – an alternative to the Dionysian AD and BC system.

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Dís

In Norse mythology, a dís ("lady", plural '''dísir''') is a ghost, spirit or deity associated with fate who can be either benevolent or antagonistic towards mortals.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Finnur Jónsson

Finnur Jónsson (May 29, 1858 – March 30, 1934) was an Icelandic philologist and Professor of Nordic Philology at the University of Copenhagen.

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Flå

Flå is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway.

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Freyja

In Norse mythology, Freyja (Old Norse for "(the) Lady") is a goddess associated with love, sex, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death.

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Freyr

Freyr (Old Norse: Lord), sometimes anglicized as Frey, is a widely attested god associated with sacral kingship, virility and prosperity, with sunshine and fair weather, and pictured as a phallic fertility god in Norse mythology.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Germania (book)

The Germania, written by the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus around 98 and originally entitled On the Origin and Situation of the Germans (De Origine et situ Germanorum), was a historical and ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire.

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Germanic paganism

Germanic religion refers to the indigenous religion of the Germanic peoples from the Iron Age until Christianisation during the Middle Ages.

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Germanic peoples

The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian, or Gothic in older literature) are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin.

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Glavendrup stone

The Glavendrup stone, designated as DR 209 by Rundata, is a runestone on the island of Funen in Denmark and dates from the early 10th century.

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Glenr

In Norse mythology, Glenr (Old Norse "opening in the clouds"Simek (2007:113).) is the husband of the goddess Sól, who drives the horses of the sun across the sky.

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Gothic language

Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths.

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Hof (Germanic temple)

A heathen hof or Germanic pagan temple was a temple building of Germanic religion; a few have also been built for use in modern heathenry.

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Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Jelling

Jelling is a village in Denmark with a population of 3,431 (1 January 2016), located in Jelling Parish approx.

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Jutland

Jutland (Jylland; Jütland), also known as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula (Cimbricus Chersonesus; Den Kimbriske Halvø; Kimbrische Halbinsel), is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany.

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List of Germanic deities

In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples that inhabited Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.

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Nationalencyklopedin

Nationalencyklopedin, abbreviated NE, is a comprehensive contemporary Swedish-language encyclopedia, initiated by a favourable loan from the Government of Sweden of 17 million Swedish kronor in 1980, which was repaid by December 1990.

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Närke

Närke is a Swedish traditional province, or landskap, situated in Svealand in south central Sweden.

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Njörðr

In Norse mythology, Njörðr is a god among the Vanir.

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Norderhov

Norderhov is a former municipality located within Ringerike in Buskerud county, Norway.

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Norse rituals

Norse religious worship is the traditional religious rituals practiced by Norse pagans in Scandinavia in pre-Christian times.

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Odense

Odense is the third-largest city in Denmark.

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Odin

In Germanic mythology, Odin (from Óðinn /ˈoːðinː/) is a widely revered god.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Old Norse literature

Old Norse literature refers to the vernacular literature of the Scandinavian peoples up to c. 1350.

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Old Norse religion

Old Norse religion developed from early Germanic religion during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic people separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples.

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Orion Publishing Group

Orion Publishing Group Ltd.

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Prose Edda

The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda (Snorra Edda) or, historically, simply as Edda, is an Old Norse work of literature written in Iceland in the early 13th century.

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Proto-Germanic language

Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; German: Urgermanisch; also called Common Germanic, German: Gemeingermanisch) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Rindr

Rindr (Old Norse) or Rinda (Latin) (sometimes Anglicized Rind) is a female character in Norse mythology, alternatively described as a giantess, a goddess or a human princess from the east (somewhere in present-day Ukraine).

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Ringsaker

is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway.

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Rudolf Simek

Rudolf Simek (born 21 February 1954 in Eisenstadt, Burgenland) is an Austrian Germanist and philologist.

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Sande, Vestfold

Sande is a municipality in Vestfold County, Norway.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.

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Shrine

A shrine (scrinium "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: escrin "box or case") is a holy or sacred place, which is dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which they are venerated or worshipped.

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Skaði

In Norse mythology, Skaði (sometimes anglicized as Skadi, Skade, or Skathi) is a jötunn and goddess associated with bowhunting, skiing, winter, and mountains.

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Skald

The term skald, or skáld (Old Norse:, later;, meaning "poet"), is generally used for poets who composed at the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking Age and Middle Ages.

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Skáldskaparmál

The second part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda the Skáldskaparmál ("language of poetry"; c. 50,000 words) is effectively a dialogue between Ægir, the Norse god of the sea, and Bragi, the god of poetry, in which both Norse mythology and discourse on the nature of poetry are intertwined.

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Skövde

Skövde (pronunciation) is a locality and urban centre in Skövde Municipality and Västra Götaland County, in the Västergötland (Western Gothland region) in central Southern Sweden.

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Skúli Þórsteinsson

Skúli Þórsteinsson was an 11th-century Icelandic poet and warrior.

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Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson (1179 – 23 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Tacitus

Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (–) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire.

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Temple

A temple (from the Latin word templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice.

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Thor

In Norse mythology, Thor (from Þórr) is the hammer-wielding god of thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, in addition to hallowing, and fertility.

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Trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks

The trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks (Vägen från varjagerna till grekerna, Shlyakh' z varahaw u hreki, Shlyakh iz varyahiv u hreky, Put' iz varjag v greki, Εμπορική οδός Βαράγγων–Ελλήνων) was a medieval trade route that connected Scandinavia, Kievan Rus' and the Eastern Roman Empire.

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Tveit

Tveit is a village and surrounding district in Oddernes borough in the city of Kristiansand in Vest-Agder county, Norway.

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Tysnes

Tysnes is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway.

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Ullr

In early Germanic paganism, *Wulþuz ("glory") appears to have been an important concept, perhaps personified as a god, or an epithet of an important god; it is continued in Old Norse tradition as Ullr, a god associated with archery.

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Uppland

Uppland is a historical province or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital.

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Vaksdal

is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway.

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Västergötland

Västergötland, also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish), situated in the southwest of Sweden.

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Veøy

Veøy is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.

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Viborg, Denmark

Viborg, a city in central Jutland, Denmark, is the capital of both Viborg municipality and Region Midtjylland.

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Vili and Vé

In Norse mythology, Vili and Vé are the brothers of the god Odin (from Old Norse Óðinn), sons of Bestla, daughter of Bölþorn; and Borr, son of Búri: Old Norse Vili means "will".

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Vyborg

Vyborg (p; Viipuri,; Viborg; Wiborg; Viiburi) is a town in, and the administrative center of, Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vé_(shrine)

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