Germania was the Roman term for the area east of the Rhine and north of the Danube and up to the islands of the Baltic Sea (its namesake originates from Julius Caesar, who used it in his treatise on the Gallic Wars,

Proto-Germanic pagan religion
Little is known for certain about the roots of Germanic religion.
Roman Iron Age
Early forms of Germanic religion are known exclusively from archaeological remains and can therefore

Celtic Iron Age
During the transition between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age (about 500 BC), there was a shift in both living and religious customs. The

An important Roman contribution to Germanic culture was writing. Around 200 AD, Runic inscriptions begin to appear in southern Scandinavia and did not cease until about 1300. The

Few written sources for Germanic paganism exist, and few of those that do were written by participants in that religion. Traditional oral literature associated with the pre

Traces of Germanic pagan religion in the oldest periods during Celtic Iron Age, are known exclusively through archaeological finds. These include images and remnants of rituals, typically objects

Regions of central Europe inhabited by Germanic peoples and England were nominally Christianised between the 6th and 8th centuries, followed by the Christianization of Scandinavia in the 8th to 12th centuries. However, elements of the ancient mythology