Germanic mythology : was siegfried a merovingian king ?
Nobody1, so far as Wotan/Godan is worried, I researched the Historia Langobardorum: apparently Paulus doesn’t propose identification with any greek god from the "classic" period. He only blogs about the germanic god with Mercurius. And also the equation doesn’t explain the next statement, where he writes this "northern" god ultimately arises from A holiday in …