Saxnot
Continental Germanic · deity · continental germanic migration and conversion (4th–10th c.) · Recorded classification
THE CORPUS HOLDS anglosaxon_seaxneat AND NO EDGE IS DRAWN. The English Seaxnēat stands in the Essex royal genealogy; this is the continental Saxon god of a baptismal formula. Two traditions, two attestations, two records, on the same footing as Wodan beside Woden and Odin. GRIMM'S ARGUMENT IS ON THE RECORD AS AN ARGUMENT: what the source gives is a name third in a list of three, and the inference from the list's shape to the god's importance is stated as the inference it is. Carries a verified-solitary verdict.
Sources
- Saxnot is the third god of the Old Saxon Baptismal Vow, argued on the strength of that triad to have been a major god of the Saxons.: Reference treatments of the Old Saxon Baptismal Vow and of Saxnôt. (secondary)