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| From "Angon" to "Angle" Shown below is the runic letter that the Anglo-Saxons called Tiwaz (Tyr), the Germanic God of War. They purposely altered the Roman letter "T" to make it look like an angon, an appropriate symbol for a war god. |
| There is proof that the word angon could develop into the word angle. An early Swedish king was named Angantyr (God's Spear). Hundreds of years after his reign the Anglo-Saxons changed the first element of his name to Angle-. In the scene below, two Swedish warriors of the Migration Age fighting with angons. Previous Page......Next Page |
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