In Germanic mythology, Seaxnēat (pronounced: sæɑksnæːɑt) or Saxnōt is a god connected with the Saxons and, as recorded in Anglo-Saxons sources, their founder and ancestor. Seaxnēat appears in the genealogies of the kings of Essex. His name does not survive in any English placenames, although the element nēat in isolation may do so. Continental Saxnōt is attested in the Old Saxon Baptismal Vow along with the gods Uuoden (Woden) and Thunaer (Thor). Jacob Grimm (Teutonic Mythology) interprets the name as literally gladii consors or ensifer (the -not cognate with German ge-noss "comrade").
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