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Reverence also in other ways is paid to the grove. No one enters it except bound with a chain, as an inferior acknowledging the might of the local divinity. If he chance to fall, it is not lawful for him to be lifted up, or to rise to his feet; he must crawl out along the ground. All this superstition implies the belief that from this spot the nation took its origin, that here dwells the
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At a stated period, all the tribes of the same race assemble by their representatives in a grove consecrated by the auguries of their forefathers, and by immemorial associations of terror. Here, having publicly slaughtered a human victim, they celebrate the horrible beginning of their barbarous rite.
190:. Furthermore, Tacitus reports that the Germanic peoples of his age regarded a "Tuisco" or "Tuisto" as the progenitor of mankind, which is sometimes surmised to be a Latinisation of Proto-Germanic '*Tiwaz', which later became "Týr" in Old Norse. 135:, for vengeance for his father. Odin lent Dag his spear. Dag met with his relation Helgi in a place called Fiöturlund, and pierced him through with his spear. Helgi fell there, but Dag rode to the mountains and told Sigrún what had taken place. 357: 57: 261: 253: 235: 79: 182:
may have been involved, as he is the Germanic continuation of Proto-Indo-European sky-father '*dyeus', whose cognates are
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Due to the resemblance between the two texts, some scholars have identified the deity of the Semnones with
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Edda Sæmundar Hinns Froða : The Edda Of Sæmund The Learned
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The Semnones' Grove of Fetters (1905) by Emil Doepler.
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Old Norse
Eddic poem
Helgakviða Hundingsbana II
Sigrún
Odin
Tacitus
sacred grove
Semnones
supreme and all-ruling deity
an early form of Odin
Týr
Jupiter
Zeus
Davidson, H. R. Ellis
Lindow, John
ISBN
1-57607-217-7
Simek, Rudolf
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0-85991-369-4
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0-85991-513-1
Tacitus, Cornelius

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