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God

So called Christians didn't always use that name, preferring the more Gospel denotation of Deus/Θεoς, Paul the Deacon in the 8th century called Godan and Wotan both demons yet a couple centuries after his "History of Lombards" every Germanic Christian's tongue resounded with Guð and this never changed, just like with the days of the Week.

"Wotan sane, quem adiecta littera Godan dixerunt, ipse est qui apud Romanos Mercurius dicitur et ab universis Germaniae gentibus ut deus adoratur; qui non circa haec tempora, sed longe anterius, nec in Germania, sed in Grecia fuisse perhibetur. " Book One, History of the Lombards by Paul the Deacon

Translation:

"Wotan indeed, whom by adding a letter they called Godan is he who among the Romans is called Mercury, and he is worshiped by all the peoples of Germany as a god, though he is deemed to have existed, not about these times, but long before, and not in Germany, but in Greece."