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

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 archaeo...

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Main Author: Peter Buchholz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Donner Institute 1993-01-01
Series:Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
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Online Access:https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67218