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Chernoglav

The fifth god was called Pizamar from a place called Jasmund, and was destroyed by fire, There was also Tjarnaglófi, their god of victory who went with them on military campaigns. He had a moustache of silver and resisted longer than the others but they managed to get him there years later. Altogether, they christened five thousand on this expedition.^[1]

Old Icelandic original text

Et fimmta goð hét Pizamarr; hann var á Ásund, svá heitir einn staðr; hann var ok brendr. Þá hét ok Tjarnaglófi, hann var sigrgoð þeirra, ok fór hann í herfarar með þeim; hann hafði kanpa af silfri; hann helz lengst við, en þó fengu þeir hann á þriðja vetri þar eptir; en þeir kristnuðu alls á landinu V þúsundir í þeirri ferð.

— Knýtlinga saga

Aleksander Gieysztor^[2] and Andrzej Szyjewski^[3] read the name as "Chernoglav/Chernoglov" (Polish: Czarnogłów). Aleksander Brückner, on the other hand, thought that the only correct reading of the name was "Triglav".^[4] Jerzy Strzelczyk notes that the warlike character of a god may speak in favor of the "Triglav" reading, but the warlike character was a feature common to many of the Polabian and Pomeranian gods.^[5] Henryk Łowmiński decided that Chernogłów is "the cemetery transformation of the Chernobog", and Leszek Moszyński proposed a read『T'arnogłowy』(from Proto-Slavic *tьrnъ, "thorn") meaning "with a head crowned with thorns", which is to refer to Jesus' crown of thorns and be a Christian influence on the late Polabian paganism.^[5] According to Yaroslav Gorbachov, the statue of Chernoglav could in fact be a statue of YarovitorPerun, but he also states that source about Chernoglav might be potential source about Chernobog.^[6]

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