Religious Foundations of Group Identity in Prehistoric Europe: The Germanic Peoples

Authors

• Peter Buchholz

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67218

Keywords:

Christianity and paganism, Group identity, Christianity, Church history, Paganism, Europe, Germanic tribes, Norse religion, Scandinavia, Snorri Sturluson, Cults, Mythology, Norse, Gods and goddesses, Norse

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of  myth as a foundation for group identity in Germanic societies. Religious foundations of group identity can, in the Germanic field in any case, only be proven with the help of written sources, and at best further confirmed or illustrated by archaeological and pictorial material.