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Tradition collection 212 records

Norse and Germanic

The Æsir and Vanir as the Eddas tell them, and what the archaeology says instead.

  • Extent Scandinavia, the North Sea and the Germanic-speaking world, roughly 500 BCE to 1200 CE.
  • Holds 103 gods · 60 figures · 39 texts and stories · 4 traditions
Meet the gods

Before you count

Almost everything written down is 13th-century Icelandic, which is five hundred years after the practice it describes; the source clock says so.

What else it is missing

Gods · 103

The gods, and the company they keep

The most widely linked across Wikipedia, this collection’s own first. A picture of a god is a work of art, never a likeness.

All 103 gods

More of its best-linked gods

In company

Pantheons, read from the members’ own records — never from a fixed roster.

Norse mythology 131 members on record Explore the pantheon

Not its own picture Hœnir — lead image of the French Wikipedia article

Figures · 60

Who to meet first

The figures its own texts, stories and traditions name — the most widely linked first, this collection’s own before those it shares.

All 60 figures

More of its best-linked figures

Texts and stories · 39

Stories and texts

What was told, and what was written — dated when it was written.

All 6 stories All 36 texts

Traditions · 4

Many paths, shared histories

The traditions, schools and movements this collection holds — each with its own page.

Also here · 1

Also in this collection

Kinds it holds only one or two of, each with its own page.

What this collection holds

Counted, not scored. Each count opens its list.

Every collection

A record can be more than one kind — a monastery is a place and an institution — so these counts add up to more than its 212 records. The sections above count the same way, and draw each record once, under the kind its own page is filed under.

Statements
1,124
With references
547
Undated
192
Accounts
0
Reviewed here
0
What it is missing, and how it was assembled

What this collection is missing

Written by an editor, not computed. A count of records cannot say any of this, and a collection read without it is a collection read wrongly.

  • Almost everything written down is 13th-century Icelandic, which is five hundred years after the practice it describes; the source clock says so.
  • Continental Germanic religion is recorded through Roman and Christian observers, and both had an argument to make.
  • Sacred sites are largely reconstructed from place names, which is a different kind of evidence from a standing building.

Counted across the collections

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds 1.

What the counts mean

Statements
Relationships and facts recorded on these records.
With references
Statements that cite a source outside Wikimedia.
Undated
Records with no date on any of the three clocks.
Accounts
Named versions of a story, kept apart.
Reviewed here
Read by a person and signed with a date.

How it was assembled

Discovered from Wikidata by class and by religion, ranked by incoming links, then filtered against each item’s own claims. Relationships are imported statements unless a row says otherwise; none of them has been read here.

“Reviewed” means a person read it and signed it with a date — which is why it is zero. Nothing here measures how good the material is.

Records here have an article in 16 languages between them. The interface is English only for now. Published 2026-09-25.

How 5 of these records were placed here through another record

Most records are in Norse and Germanic by their own statements. These are here because of another record they are linked to — worked out when the data was built, not stated on the record itself. Each one’s own page says the same.

Figures and stories, through the text they appear in · 2

Works, through their main subject · 3

Keep going

Walk Norse and Germanic another way.

A family tree as the accounts give it, every mapped place on the atlas, and the dates on the timeline — each on its own clock.

Thor’s family tree On the atlas The timeline, from Clovis I