Seaxneat
Anglo Saxon · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Tribal god/ancestor of the Saxons (name 'sword-companion'); renounced beside Thunaer and Woden in the Old Saxon Baptismal Vow.
Domains
- tribal ancestry
Powers
- Stand as divine ancestor of the East Saxon kings
Epithets
- Seaxnēat Sword-companion (companion of the seax/long-knife)Anglo-Saxon royal genealogy of Essex (Textus Roffensis); Old Saxon Baptismal Vow (Saxnôt) (primary)
Relations
- companion: WodenRenounced together - 'Thunaer ende Uuoden ende Saxnote' - as the three great gods.Old Saxon Baptismal Vow (9th c.) (primary)
- companion: ThunorRenounced together - 'Thunaer ende Uuoden ende Saxnote' - as the three great gods.Old Saxon Baptismal Vow (9th c.) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Old Saxon Baptismal Vow ('forsachistu... Thunaer ende Woden ende Saxnote'); East Saxon genealogy (primary); R. North, Heathen Gods in Old English Literature (1997) (secondary)