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en-wikipedia-org-2203		Lombards - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	11013	1137	72	He thought the pagan stories of his people "silly" and "laughable".[20][22] Paul explained that the name "Langobard" came from the length of their beards.[23] A modern theory suggests that the name "Langobard" comes from Langbarðr, a name of Odin.[24] Priester states that when the Winnili changed their name to "Lombards", they also changed their old agricultural fertility cult to a cult of Odin, thus creating a conscious tribal tradition.[25] Fröhlich inverts the order of events in Priester and states that with the Odin cult, the Lombards grew their beards in resemblance of the Odin of tradition and their new name reflected this.[26] Bruckner remarks that the name of the Lombards stands in close relation to the worship of Odin, whose many names include "the Long-bearded" or "the Grey-bearded", and that the Lombard given name Ansegranus ("he with the beard of the gods") shows that the Lombards had this idea of their chief deity.[27] The same Old Norse root Barth or Barði, meaning "beard", is shared with the Heaðobards mentioned in both Beowulf and in Widsith, where they are in conflict with the Danes.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2203.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2203.txt