I was reading about the awesome Germanic custom of the
Symbel today - how cool does this sound eh?
Of course and then we have Simbelmyne - Evermind. At the ritual drinking fest one of the features would be the scop or bard who would recite the genealogies - and niftily, the Rohirrim also have just that kind of thing at Theoden's funeral! Which brings it full circle - Simbelmyne at Theoden's funeral, overseen by a bard who recites the histories, just as did the scop, at the Symbel.
***
I've also found something interesting abut Germanic correspondences in the names of months - Blotmonath for example - and am fascinated that the word Bless directly derives from Blot - the pagan sacrificial practice
That's also got me on to the Tomte or Nisse, a Swedish Wight a bit like a Boggart, who makes me think of old Tom Bombadillo...and that Galdor is a kind of Scandinavian Shamanic magic...
It's a dangerous do, looking at words...