Claim: Odin appears in Norse mythology.

Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples . Commonly featuring narratives focused on Germanic deities and a large variety of other entities , Germanic mythology dates from the Proto-Germanic period and reaches beyond the Christianization of the Germanic peoples and into modern Germanic folklore . Germanic mythology includes Norse mythology , Anglo-Saxon mythology , and Continental Germanic mythology .   As the Germanic languages developed from Proto-Indo-European language , Germanic mythology is ultimately a development of Proto-Indo-European religion . The study of Germanic mythology has remained an important element of Germanic philology since the development of the field and the topic is an integral component of Heathenry , the modern revival of Germanic paganism .