• In Anglo-Saxon paganism, Rheda (Latinized from Old English *Hrêðe or *Hrêða, possibly meaning "the famous" or "the victorious") is a goddess connected...
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  • Rheda may refer to: Rheda (mythology), the Latinized form of the name of an Anglo-Saxon goddess Rheda, Germany, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany...
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  • of Lake Vänern Ēostre Fimbulwinter Hjaðningavíg Mōdraniht Ragnarök Rheda (mythology) Yule Balmung Brisingamen Draupnir Dromi Eitr Gjallarhorn Gleipnir...
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    matronae. Likewise, the poorly attested Anglo-Saxon goddesses Eostre and Rheda may be connected with the matronae. Besides Nerthus, Tacitus elsewhere mentions...
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  • Heorot to find that Hrothgar, his adoptive father, is dead. Hrothgar's wife, Rheda, who had favoured her own son over the young Beowulf, is named his successor...
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  • List of Anglo-Saxon deities (category Germanic mythology)
    'Easter'. Erce/Folde/Eorðe, the 'Mother of Earth' cited in the Æcerbot charm. Rheda, also Hrethe or Hrēða, listed by Bede. Wyrd, the Anglo-Saxon concept of...
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    Potamoi (category Deities in classical mythology)
    lit. 'Rivers') are the gods of rivers and streams of the earth in Greek mythology. The river gods were the 3000 sons of the great earth-encircling river...
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  • Regnator omnium deus, a Germanic god mentioned by Tacitus in his Germania Rheda maybe an Anglo-Saxon goddess of war and/or spring mentioned by Bede. Tamfana...
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    names of the English people. After describing the worship of the goddess Rheda during the Anglo-Saxon month of Hrēþ-mōnaþ, Bede writes about Ēosturmōnaþ...
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    about an adulterous nobleman's wife in the civil parish of Batenhorst, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Westphalia. The legend originates from the time of the Thirty...
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