The word *God* in Anglo-Saxon and Norwegian originals was spelled *god*(say goad). Before Christianity came to those peoples *god* referred to something materially good. When Christianity arrived the variant *God*(short *o*)developed to denote a total, non-material goodness and eventually was applied to the being known as *God.* So two different kinds of *goodness* were thereby represented in those languages.
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