(New York: Oxford University Press). See also Germanic languages: A language family, the languages of which are spoken in northern and northwestern Europe, and in many places colonized since around 1500 Germanic peoples: Collective name of a number of tribes and peoples, originating from northern Europe, several of which invaded the Roman Empire in the 5th and 6th centuries their Germanic mythology Germanic Christianity that came to dominate much of North-Western Europe in the second millennium, i.e. the Germans (in a wide sense), Anglo-Saxons and the Scandinavians Beowulf: A prominent epic poem that may have been written around the same time, in the closely related Old English language. Muspilli: A similar Biblical poem of debated meaning, written in Old High German. References Bibliography . (with Genesis B). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . External links Literary Encyclopedia page Electronic facsimile of Eduard Siever's 1878 edition Concordances Searchable version On-going English translation Incomplete audio recording in Old Saxon Old Saxon Biblical paraphrases Low German literature Carolingian Empire 9th century in East Francia Cotton Library Manuscripts of the Vatican Library