Chernoglav

This article is about Slavic god. For Polish village, seeCzarnogłów, Masovian Voivodeship.

ChernoglavorChernoglov(Old Icelandic:Tjarnaglófi) is the god of victory and war worshipped inRügen,probably in the town ofJasmund,mentioned together withSvetovit,Rugievit,Turupid,PuruvitandPizamarin theKnýtlinga saga.

The fifth god was called Pizamar from a place called Jasmund, and was destroyed by fire, There was alsoTjarnaglófi,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.

Old Icelandic original text

Et fimmta goð hét Pizamarr; hann var á Ásund, svá heitir einn staðr; hann var ok brendr. Þá hét okTjarnaglófi,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 Gieysztorand Andrzej Szyjewskiread the name as "Chernoglav/Chernoglov" (Polish:Czarnogłów).Aleksander Brückner,on the other hand, thought that the only correct reading of the name was "Triglav".Jerzy Strzelczyknotes 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 thePolabianandPomeraniangods.Henryk Łowmiński decided that Chernogłów is "the cemetery transformation of theChernobog",and Leszek Moszyński proposed a read" T'arnogłowy "(fromProto-Slavic*tьrnъ,"thorn" ) meaning "with a head crowned with thorns", which is to refer to Jesus' crown of thorns and be aChristianinfluence on the late Polabian paganism.According to Yaroslav Gorbachov, the statue of Chernoglav could in fact be a statue ofYarovitorPerun,but he also states that source about Chernoglav might be potential source about Chernobog.