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25: 42: 396:, and notes that comparison with Roman gods is insufficient to reconstruct ancient Germanic gods, or equate them definitively with those of later 475: 337:, which retains the name of a foreign god, possibly because there was no obvious Germanic substitute. The name of the day is associated with 89: 322:, which derive from Latin, days of the week still preserve the names of the original Roman deities, such as the Italian for Tuesday, 501: 108: 61: 68: 46: 161: 75: 496: 172: 57: 35: 196: 342: 437: 346: 417: 410: 392: 188: 82: 467: 260: 246: 373: 338: 176: 137: 471: 319: 311: 232: 218: 133: 129: 397: 146:, this occurred around the 1st century AD, when both cultures came into closer contact. 364: 271: 490: 204: 143: 264: 24: 355: 278: 238: 164:
from Roman deities into names of approximately equivalent Germanic deities:
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Identification of Roman gods with their own deities by Germanic peoples
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Simek emphasizes the paucity of evidence for a widespread
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Germanic peoples
Germanic deities
University of Bonn
philologist
Rudolf Simek
names for the days of the week
Sunday
Sunnǭ
Old Norse
Old English
Old High German
Sol
Monday
Mēnô
Luna
Tuesday
Tīwaz
Mars
Wednesday

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