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Originally Posted by ThorHammer
... However, I have not found it in any modern dictionary.
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I see - this means there's something wrong with the dictionaries you are using. I don't know anyone who thinks about Donar, Wodan or Thor - except some fans of fantasy stories or Nazis. Normally I would say that it is not so important - but once I had a problem with the expresisoin "Ostara" (Easter) and I had to take a look. Since this time I know for sure that the godess "Ostara" never existed. It is just a form of propagandism against Christians in the kind "Christian stole Easter" and a reason for some people to disturb relgious celebrations.
In later times I found out, that "Ostara" was also the name of a newpaper in 1905 from a man who called himsel "Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels" (his real name was 'Adolf Joseph Lanz'). There's is existing an article also in the enlgish Wikepedia - but I don't know how good it is (In the german Wikipedia there's a very good articlae). This dishonarable monk, traitorously priest and extremly stupid dreamer produced a lot of ideas the Nazis were using in a kind of German myth that never really existed.
It's nothing else than a kind of fantasy. Most Germans don't have really any idea about. Every year someone is telling something about some gods that hypothetically were existing since centuries - and in most cases it are nothing else than fantasy stories. No one in the USA for example would say "The Terminator" is a god - it's nothing else than a fantasie story. Normally everyone knows what's a dream, fiction, fantasy and what's reality.