In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabited Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses. Germanic deities are attested from numerous sources, including works of literature, various chronicles, runic inscriptions, personal names, place names, and other sources. This article contains a comprehensive list of Germanic deities outside the numerous Germanic Matres and Matronae inscriptions from the 1st to 5th century CE. Gods Goddesses {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 90%; width: 100%" !Name !Name meaning !Attested consorts and sexual partners !Attested children !Attestations |- |Baduhenna (Latinized Germanic) |Badu-, may be cognate to Proto-Germanic *badwa- meaning "battle." The second portion of the name -henna may be related to -henae, which appears commonly in the names of matrons. |None attested |None attested |Tacitus's Annals |- |Bil (Old Norse) |Contested |None attested |None attested |Prose Edda |- |Beyla (Old Norse) |Proposed as related to "cow," "bean," or "bee." |Byggvir |None attested |Poetic Edda |- |Dís (Old Norse) |"goddess" |None attested |None attested |Poetic Edda |- |Eir (Old Norse) |"Peace, clemency" or "help, mercy" |None attested |None attested |Poetic Edda, Prose Edda |- |Ēostre (Old English) |"East" (Gives her name to Easter according to Bede). |None attested |None attested |De temporum ratione |- |Freyja (Old Norse) (See List of names of Freyja for more) |"Lady" |Freyr, Óðr |Hnoss, Gersemi |Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Heimskringla, Sörla þáttr |- |Frigg (Old Norse) |Derived from an Indo-European root meaning "Love" (Gives her name to Friday, as the Germanic equivalent of Venus). |Odin (consort), Vili, Vé |Baldr, Höðr |Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Gesta Danorum, Historia Langobardorum, Second Merseburg Incantation |- |Fulla (Old Norse) |Possibly "bountiful" |None attested |None attested |Second Merseburg Incantation, Poetic Edda, Prose Edda |- |Gefjun (Old Norse) |Related to "giving" |Skjöldr, unnamed jötunn |Four oxen |Prose Edda, Ynglinga saga, Völsa þáttr, |- |Gersemi (Old Norse) |"Treasure, precious object" |None attested |None attested |Heimskringla |- |Gerðr (Old Norse) |"Fenced in" |Freyr |Fjölnir (Heimskringla) |Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Heimskringla |- |Gná (Old Norse) |Possibly related to Old Norse Gnæfa, meaning "to project" |None attested |None attested |Prose Edda |- |Gullveig (Old Norse) |Contested |None attested |None attested |Poetic Edda |- | (Latinized Germanic) |Possibly "marriage" |Possibly Hercules Magusanus |None attested |Votive stone from the Netherlands (CIL XIII 8705) |- |Hariasa |Possibly related to the valkyrie name Herja or meaning "goddess with lots of hair" |None attested |None attested |Stone from