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Goddess name "Easter aka Eastre" |
Saxons |
A putative goddess of the Anglo-Saxons |
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Goddess name "Eostre" |
Anglo - Saxon |
Fertility goddess of spring. The derivation of Easter. Probably a number of the obscure folk customs surrounding Easter and still practiced in England trace back to her worship.... |
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Deities name "Herne" |
Celtic / British / or Anglo - Saxon |
Chthonic underworld god. Known locally from windsor Great Park, Berkshire, England, he equates with the Welsh deities GWYNN AP NUDD and ARAWN and is, according to legend, the leader of the phantom hunt. Depicted with stag-like antlers.... |
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God name "In" |
Anglo - Saxon |
Ancestral god. According to a runic poem he is the father of the Saxons and appeared from across the sea and then disappeared, never to return. He may also be classed as one of the Nordic AESIR gods.... |
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King name "The pendragon Naud" |
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Cedric, founder of the West Saxon kingdom, slew Naud, the pendragon, with 5,000 men. This Naud is called Natanleod, a corruption of Naudan ludh (Naud, the people's refuge). Anglo Saxon |
