OK, but if we to ask the people from Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein they never had traditions to wear a Seax with them.
So, those ancient Saxons that came to South of England with their Seaxneat where not having the normal Odin and Freya, that all Germanic people had, as pre-Christian religion.
This Seaxneat was wielding a sword and is resembling very well the supreme deity of the Scythians.
So I still keep the opinion that some Scythians tribes came in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, terrorized or brain washed the people there and took some people from Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, with which they migrated to South of England.
Why Essex, Middlesex had Seaxes on their flags?
Ancient Saxons seems to have significant K1 maternal lines, so they were not actually 100% Europeans.
Umm, many Germanic tribes made use of the seax and it is not restricted to the Saxons, we know the Alemanni, Franks, Longobards, etc used this tool. You're going to ask modern people living in Lower Saxony if they used seaxs? I'm betting none of them have because they are living in the modern era.
We have know visual attestations of what Seaxneat was believed to have looked like and we have next to nothing on this deity. Please present your source for him holding a sword and resembling the supreme deity of the Scythians (who according to Herodotus was a goddess, not a god).
The flags you reference were designed in more modern times in England and the cutlasses on the flags were likely in remembrance of the Saxons for whom the counties are named. From what I can see we have no attestations of the Kingdom of Essex's flag, however we do have a representation of the Wessex flag, which was a yellow wyvern on a white background.
Ancient Saxons had a lot of K1? Which specific mitochondrial branch? The varities found in the near east or the varities found in Europe? Don't base assumptions on rather basal haplogroups.
I am also Germanic, because all Romanians are descending from East Germanic tribes and Dacians and I do not believe the lies that Seaxneath was "Germanic god" of the "Germanic Saxons".
Seaxneath is Scythian god and Germanic people religion with Odin and Freya was quite complex and was a religion about wisdom.
Odin is having a staff with him and travels.
As for the people telling that Vikings were going to raid in British Isles to "die in battle to go in Valhalla" that is nonsense.
Maybe Scythians had such a religion.
So I am sorry, but I think traditionalistic English and Americans should renounce to their Scythian non-sense, with Seaxneath and excessive use of weapons and adoration for wars.
Romanians likely owe most of their ancestry to Dacians and related peoples with smaller contributions from the various incoming people such as Scythians, Celts, Germanics, Huns, Slavic groups, etc.
Seaxneat most definitely was a Saxon isolate god specific to their religion, the Germanic religion was not some hardlined and enforced religion with rules and sets like Abrahamic religions, it was fluid and certain tribes within the sphere of Germanic culture had their own independent variances. Where is the evidence tying Seaxneat to the Scythians? Please provide the source for this claim.
The Vikings raided Britain, France, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, etc they weren't doing this to die in Valhalla, they were doing this because the monasteries they initially started raiding were undefended and full of riches. Part of the ferocity in battle is linked to the belief in the afterlife, specifically in a hall of fallen warriors (hence "Valhalla").
The last part you mention... can you elaborate?
Another thing, from the ancient European languages, the language spoken by migrating Saxons to England was most close to current Iranic languages.
But Scythians were not fully IndoEuropean people, but South Siberian/Central Asian partially and mostly, Nordish DNA people.
Here is a text sample of Old Saxon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Saxon#Text_sample
Here are text samples of reconstructed Scythian:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issyk_inscription,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythian_languages#Inscriptions
Where did you find all these bald affirmations concerning the specific ancient anglo-saxon dialect send to England? as opposed to other Germanic dialects or IE dialects of N-E Europe?
According to your method of determining religion membership or closeness, why not examine all the coats of arms of Europe feuda families and try to divine new religions memberships based on symboles?
I'm asking the same questions, coincidental similarities and referencing modern flag designs is not evidence of ancient links. The Saxon people were most similar to other North Sea Germanic populations that surrounded them: Angles, Jutes, Franks, Frisians.
You know that almost all English historical sources mention a an early Scythian migration to England (in fact they were called as one of the first people who settled in this land), such as "Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation" by Bede, the father of English History, "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", compiled on the orders of King Alfred the Great, "Historia Brittonum", by Nennius, "History of the Kings of Britain", by Geoffrey of Monmouth, ...
Modern English historian Sharon Turner talk about numerous Old English words which have Iranian origin, of course by comparing to Persian.
The interesting thing is that we see some possible sound changes of Scythian language in Old English loanwords from this language, for example cognate of the English verb fly in Persian is pridan, a possible sound change in Scythian is p>b and we see Old English bridd with the meaning of "bird".
In Nennius' work "Scythia" was not mentioned in the original language the work was written in, Latin. Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle were discussing Picts who resided in Scotland as coming from Scythia. Both poetic ways of writing.
Please provide your source on
pridan as I cannot find it in Persian dictionaries. I wish to see the root origin of that word. We should at least note that many languages have words of unexplained origins, yet we don't jump the gun and link them to others without sufficient evidence.
I found this link:
http://www.zompist.com/chance.htm