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Bookmark or Share- Germanic peoples - WikipediaThe great majority of material describing Germanic mythology stems from the North Germanic record. The body of myths among the North Germanic-speaking peoples is known today as Norse mythology and is attested in numerous works, the most expansive of which are the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda.
- Germanic languages | Definition, Language Tree, & ListScholars often divide the Germanic languages into three groups: West Germanic, including English, German, and Netherlandic ; North Germanic, including Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Faroese; and East Germanic, now extinct, comprising only Gothic and the languages of the Vandals, Burgundians, and a few other tribes.
- Germanic peoples | Migration, Culture & History | BritannicaGermanic peoples, any of the Indo-European speakers of Germanic languages. The origins of the Germanic peoples are obscure. During the late Bronze Age, they are believed to have inhabited southern Sweden, the Danish peninsula, and northern Germany between the Ems River on the west, the Oder River.
- Scandinavian languages | Norse, Swedish, Danish, & NorwegianAlso known as: North Germanic languages. Written by. Jan Terje Faarlund. Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics, University of Trondheim, Norway. Author of Syntactic Change: Toward a Theory of Historical Syntax and others. Jan Terje Faarlund, Einar Haugen. Victor S. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and Scandinavian, Harvard University, 1964–75.
- The Nordic Languages - De GruyterThis handbook is conceived as a comprehensive history of the North Germanic languages from the oldest times up to the present day. Whereas most of the traditional presentations of Nordic language history are confined to individual languages and often concentrate on purely linguistic data, the present work covers the history of all Nordic languages in its totality, embedded in a broad culture ...
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