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In Germanic mythology, Seaxnēat (pronounced ) or Saxnōt is the national god of the Saxons. The Old English form ''Seaxnēat'' is recorded in the genealogies of the kings of Essex. The Old Saxon form ''Saxnōt'' is attested in the ''Old Saxon Baptismal Vow'' along with the gods ''Uuoden'' (Woden) and ''Thunaer'' (Thor). The genealogy of the kings of Essex originally placed Seaxnēat at its apex. It was subsequently modified to make Seaxnēat son of Woden, with the first king of Essex seven generations later: :Woden, Seaxnēat, Gesecg, Andsecg, Swaeppa, Sigefugel, Bedca, Offa, Æscwine (r. c. 527-587) The name is interpreted as ''seax'', the war knife eponymous of the tribal name of the Saxons, and ''(ge)-not'', ''(ge)-nēat'' as "companion" (cognate with German ''Genosse'' "comrade"), resulting in a translation of "sword-companion" (''gladii consors, ensifer''). This interpretation of the name is due to Jacob Grimm, who identified Saxnot with the god Tiw (Zio)〔Grimm, ''Deutsche Mythologie'' (1935), trans. Stallybrass (1888), (chapter 9 ): "As ''Zio'' is identical with ''Zeus'' as directors of wars, we see at a glance that ''Eor, Er, Ear'', is one with''Ares'' the son of Zeus; and as the Germans had given the rank of Zeus to their Wuotan, Týr and consequently Eor appears as the son of the highest god. () Then again the famous ''Abrenuntiatio'' names three heathen gods, ''Thunar, Wôden, Saxnôt'', of whom the third can have been but little inferior to the other two in power and holiness. ''Sahsnôt'' is word for word ''gladii consors, ensifer'', who else but Zio or Eor and the Greek Ares? The AS. genealogies preserve the name of Saxneát as the son of Wôden, and it is in perfect accordance with it, that Týr was the son of Oðinn, and Ares the son of Zeus. But further, as the Saxons were so called, either because they wielded the sword of stone (saxum), or placed this god at the head of their race, so I think the Cheruscans of Tacitus, a people synonymous, nay identical with them, were named after ''Cheru, Heru = Eor'', from whom their name can be derived."〕 Grimm's view is more recently endorsed by Chaney (1970), but Simek (2007:276) prefers an identification with Fro, following Gabriel Turville-Petre (and invoking Georges Dumézil's trifunctional hypothesis). ==See also== *List of Germanic deities *West Germanic deities 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seaxnēat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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