Ēarendel
deity sky Old English single tradition · 3
Ēarendel is an Old English figure whose name means 'dawn, ray of light'. The name is a Germanic cognate of the Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess tradition.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Old English figure whose name means 'dawn, ray of light'.
Relationships
Mentioned by
- H₂éwsōs
- Uṣas
- Eos
- Ayg
- Aurora
- Mater Matuta
- Aušra
- Aušrinė
- Austra
- Aoos
- *Hušas
- Ušå
- Ušahina
- Aotis
- Aurvandil
- Auseklis
and 3 more
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“Old English: Ēarendel, meaning "dawn, ray of light"”
#18271 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“the 'Anglo-Saxons appear to have known earendel as a quasi-mythological figure who personified a natural phenomenon (sunrise) and an astrological/astronomical object (the morning star).'”
#41213 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat