Fontes Series on Various Ancient Religions

The Meyer Fontes on the religion of the Suavs is but a part of a larger set of publication of sources on religious writing. This is the Fontes historiae religionum ex auctoribus graecis et latinis (collectos subsidiis Societas Rhenanae promovendis litteris. It came out over 1920-1939 edited by A. Marcus, E. Weber, Carl Clemen, Theodor Hopfner, Karl Heinrich Meyer, Hans Zwicker and Bernhard Breloer (think I got all of them).


Fasc. 1

Fontes historiae religionis Persicae (1920)


Fasc. 2

Fontes historiae religionis Aegyptiacae (1922-1925)
(in five parts)

This “contains all known descriptions of and refer­ences to Egyptian religion in the classical authors, both Greek and Latin, from Homer to the mid-Byzantines.”


Fasc. 3

Fontes historiae religionis Germanicae (1928)


Fasc. 4

Fontes Historiae Religionis Slavicae (1931)


Fasc. 5

Fontes historiae religionis Celticae (1934-1936)
(in three parts)


Fasc. 6

Fontes historiae religionum primitivarum, praeindogermanicarum, indogermanicarum minus notarum (1936)


Fasc. 7

Fontes historiae religionum indicarum (1939)


Here are some examples of Germanic religious tradition as listed by Karl Clemens in his Fontes historiae religions Germanicae (see Fasc. 3 above).


  • C. Iulius Caesar
  • Strabo
  • C. Velleius Paterculus
  • P. Papinius Statius
  • P. Cornelius Tacitus
  • Sex. Iulius Frontinus
  • C. Suetonius Tranquillus
  • Plutarchus
  • Appianus
  • Clemens Alexandrinus
  • Cassius Dio
  • Ammianus Marcellinus
  • Claudius Claudianus
  • Eunapius
  • Epistola concilii Aquilensis (a. 381 habiti) ad Gratianum et Valentinianum et Theodosium imperatores
  • Aurelius Augustinus
  • Orosius
  • Sozomenus
  • Apollinaris Sidonius
  • Lex Salica
  • Leges Burgundionum
  • Ennodius
  • Concilium Aspasii Episcopi metropolitani Elusani
  • Jordanes
  • Procopius
  • Agathias
  • Gregorius Turonensis
  • Gregorius I. papa
  • Baudonivia
  • Lex Ribuaria
  • Concilium Clippiacense
  • Concilium sub Sonnatio episcopo Remensi
  • Chronicae quae dicintur Fredegarii scholastici
  • Ionas Segusiensis
  • Edictus Rothari
  • Origo gentis Longobardorum
  • Lex Visigothorum
  • Leges Longobardorum a Grimowaldo additae
  • Poenitentiale Theodori
  • Lex Alamannorum
  • Lex Baiuwaiorum
  • Leges Liutprandi
  • Poenitentiale Egberti
  • Daniel episcopus Vintoniensis
  • Gregorius II. papa
  • Beda Venerabilis
  • Gregorius III. papa
  • Concilium germanicum
  • Indiculus superstitionum et paganiarum
  • Zacharias (papa)
  • Vita Eligii
  • Vita Amandi
  • Vita Landiberti episcopi Traiectensis vetustissima
  • Bonifatius
  • Willibaldus
  • Carolus Magnus
  • Concilium Neuchingense
  • Alevinus
  • Synodi Britannicae
  • Annales regni Francorum
  • Paulus Diaconus
  • Pseudo-Bonifatius
  • Vita Vulframni
  • Vita Barbati
  • Excerptum ex Gallica historia
  • Chronicon Laurissense breve
  • Wettinus
  • Eigil
  • Nennius
  • Ermoldus Nigellus
  • Poenitentiale Pseudo-Theordori
  • Vita Willehadi
  • Vita Lebvini (qui s. VIII. fuit) antiqua
  • Altfridus
  • Pasio Kiliani martyris Wirziburgensis
  • Lex Frisionum
  • Hincmarus Remensis
  • Rudolfus monachus Fuldensis
  • Rimbertus
  • Notkerus Balbulus
  • Poenitentiale ecclesiarum Germaniae (Corrector)
  • Poenitentiale Arundel
  • Widukindus
  • Thietmarus Merseburgensis episcopus
  • Vita Walarici abbatis Leuconaensis
  • Cnutonis regis gesta
  • Wolfherius
  • Adam Bremensis (portions here)
  • Chronicon Fani Sancti Neoti
  • Miracula S. Mathiae
  • Wilhelmus Malmesbiriensis
  • Gesta abbatum Trudonensium
    • (…ex villa nomine Inda… !?)
  • Gesta Herwardi
  • Saxo Grammaticus

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August 2, 2020

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