Etymology. Scholars commonly identify the goddess Nerthus with the Njörðr, a deity who is attested in Old Norse texts and in numerous Scandinavian place names.Scholars identify the Romano-Germanic Nerthus as the linguistic precursor to the Old Norse deity name Njörðr and have reconstructed the form as Proto-Germanic *Nerþuz. The meaning of the theonym is …

Maroboduus (d. AD 37) was a king of the Marcomanni, who were a Germanic Suebian people. He spent part of his youth in Rome, and returning, found his people under pressure from invasions by the Roman empire between the Rhine and Elbe.He led them into the forests of Bohemia, near to the Quadi who already lived nearby, and established a large alliance.

Name. The name Veleda (/Weleda/) is most likely a borrowing from Gaulish *ueletā ('seeress'; cf. Gaul. uelets, Old Irish filed, Middle Welsh gwelet, Middle Breton guelet), with regular Germanic sound shift -t-> -d-.. Life. The name may be Celtic and generic title for a prophetess (from Proto-Celtic *welet-"seer", a derivative of the root *wel-"to see"). The ancient Germanic peoples …