Wardun - Wardun

...Early society was already at the stage of a clearly defined class society, consisting of the king and nobility who were large landowners, and a subordinate peasant class, as well as a considerable number of slaves, but on the other hand it still retained a clan-based character in which blood revenge, an "eye for an eye," was the basis of social justice. The religion was also polytheistic, with nature worship, common to other Germanic tribes, and the objects of worship were various gods such as Wardun (the chief god, god of war, and god of commerce), Zunor (the god of thunder), and Frigg (the god of marriage and family). Their oldest long epic poem, Beowulf, which is said to have been codified around the 8th century, well expresses the early, heroic national spirit, which was excellent in its sense of reality, melancholy, solemn, and resigned to its fate.

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…初期の社会はすでに明確な階級社会の段階にあり，大土地所有者である王･貴族と，従属的農民層からなり，ほかにかなり多数の奴隷も存在したが，半面なお〈目には目を〉の血の復讐を社会正義の基本となす氏族制的性格をもとどめていた。宗教も他のゲルマン諸族と共通の自然崇拝的多神教で，ウォードゥン(主神，軍神，商業の神)，ズーノル(雷神)，フリッグ(結婚･家庭の神)などの諸神を信仰の対象とした。8世紀ころ成文化されたといわれるその最古の長編叙事詩《ベーオウルフ》には，現実感覚にすぐれ，沈鬱，重厚，運命を甘受する初期の雄渾な民族精神がよくあらわれている。…

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