maandag (Monday) named after Máni - compared to 'dies Lunae' ( Luna's day).

Note that the following days were named through Roman influence, because the Romans found them to be (roughly) equivalent to their Roman deities: In Dutch the days of the week are named for Germanic gods, a custom derived from parallel Roman practice. Donar is Dutch for Thor, the god of thunder.

The Wild Hunt was retold in Dutch with Wodan leading under different guises: Gait with his dogs Derk with his dogs Derk with his boar the glowing horse Henske with his dogs.). Many of the deities are the same as eastern Germanic Deities: Wodan is Dutch for Odin, the god of war and leader of the Wild Hunt. Sources for the reconstruction of pre-Christian traditions include the accounts of the Anglo-Saxon missionaries to the region, medieval and modern folklore and legend, and local toponymy.Ī tribute to pagan mythology illustrated in Emilia, Arcite, and Palamon worship at the shrines of the Gods - from the Théséide, circa 1460-70 by Flemish artist Barthélemy d'Eyck.įrom ancient regional mythology, most names of ancient gods and goddesses in this region come from local tribal lore, particularly in the North.

Pre-Christian traditions of the veneration of trees (particularly the oak, see Donar's oak), springs and woods native to the Low Countries survived in Christianized guise into the Middle Ages. However, many of the myths in this language are ancient and part of larger movements across Europe, such as Roman mythology that spread through the Roman Empire, and Continental Germanic mythology. Old Dutch mythology can mean the myths specifically told in Old Dutch language. the decidedly more Celtic and Gallo-Roman Belgae tribes of Gallia Belgica south of the Rhine (also mainly but with many exceptions).Frisii (and later, in the same area, the Frisians).Germanic tribes north of the Rhine River (with a lot of exceptions like the Eburones or the Celtic Nervii.).At the time of the Roman Empire and in the Early Middle Ages, some of the resident peoples of the Low Countries' included: Gaulish ( Gallo-Roman) and Germanic) cultures, predating the region's Christianization under the influence of the Franks in the Early Middle Ages. The mythology of the modern-day Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg has its roots in the mythologies of pre-Christian (e.g. For legends after Christianization, see Folklore of the Low Countries. This article is about pre-Christian legends of the Low Countries.

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