Yarovit
English
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editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Medieval Latin Gerovit (possibly via Slavic languages), from Old Polabian *Jerovit, from Old Polabian equivalents of Proto-Slavic *jarъ (“vigorous, strong”) + *-o- + *-vitъ.
Proper noun
editYarovit (plural Yarovits)
- (Slavic mythology) Polabian god of war worshipped in Wolgast and Havelberg
- god Yarovit
- 1151, Ebo, chapter 3.8, in Vita Ottonis episcopi bambergensis [Life of Saint Otto, Bishop of Bamberg]:
- But a clergyman named Dietrich, who had gone ahead of them and had approached the doors of the temple, not knowing where to turn, boldly burst into the shrine itself, and, seeing a golden shield hanging on the wall which had been dedicated to Yarovit, their god of war, and which they considered it unlawful to touch, seized the shield and faced them.
Translations
editgod of war
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