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Skyrim lore and scandinavian and norse mythology :: the elder scrolls v: skyrim general discussions

I believe there’s without doubt to state that Bethesda produced Skyrim according to Norse Mythology. Scandinavian and Germanic folklore in the religious traditions from the Norsemen throughout the Viking Age. Norsemen, and also the Germanic people share alot in tradition both modern and ancient. Everything we all experience in Skyrim in the Divines to landscapes …

Variations between norse/ nordic/ scandinavian and germanic/ german/ teutonic myths

Around any common cultural system could be after generations and generations of spread more than a large distance, evolving influences from neighbors, and progressively diverging languages. For which it’s worth, you can create root words for proto-Germanic types of most of the common gods of Germanic mythology — *Thun-raz for Thorr/Thor/Donar, etc. I’m not sure …