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Between the Devil and the Deep Lake Constance
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In his Vita Columbani Jonas of Bobbio provides the earliest instance of an interpretatio Christiana of the Alamannic god Woden, unequivocally identifying him with the devil. The significance of Jonas’s story about Columbanus and the pagan Alamanni does not lie in its preservation of any authentic details of Alamannic ritual, but rather in the fact that this is the oldest instance of interpretatio Christiana in the Germanic-speaking world.
Title: Between the Devil and the Deep Lake Constance
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In his Vita Columbani Jonas of Bobbio provides the earliest instance of an interpretatio Christiana of the Alamannic god Woden, unequivocally identifying him with the devil.
The significance of Jonas’s story about Columbanus and the pagan Alamanni does not lie in its preservation of any authentic details of Alamannic ritual, but rather in the fact that this is the oldest instance of interpretatio Christiana in the Germanic-speaking world.
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