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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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