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THE INDO-EUROPEAN COMPONENT IN

GERMANIC RELIGION

Any scientific study and interpretation of ancient religion isclosely dependent on the available source material. In the study of Germanic

religion, the value and reliability of the sources appear to be a particularly

important problem, since our information is scanty and desultory. What is a t

our disposal consists: indeed, mainly of circumstantial evidence and externaltestimony; we do not have any specific original ritual text, or any genuine

Germanic writing witnessing the relationship between man and god in

ancient times, and all we claim to know is what we can infer from thef G i li i lif di h ili

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