Motz was thus the first scholar in recent history to question the truth behind the goddess Nerthus in Tacitus ' Germania, the name being only one of several possible manuscript readings, thus opening up new paths of thought on early Germanic religion. Lotte Motz was certainly the first scholar in our field to take a serious step past the Three-Function-Theory developed by Georges Dumezil nearly four decades ago. `` Jenny Jochens cites six of Motz's titles in the bibliography to her Old Norse Images of Women, and Andy Orchard cites sixteen of Motz's works in endnotes to entries in his Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend.
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