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Anglo-Saxon paganism was a polytheistic belief system, focused around a belief in deities known as the ése (singular ós ). The most prominent of these deities was probably Woden; other prominent gods included Thunor and Tiw.
- Paganism
In modern times, Heathen and Heathenry are increasingly used...
- Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group that inhabited much...
- Paganism
In modern times, Heathen and Heathenry are increasingly used to refer to those branches of modern paganism inspired by the pre-Christian religions of the Germanic, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples.
The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group that inhabited much of what is now England in the Early Middle Ages, and spoke Old English. They traced their origins to Germanic settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century.
Abstract. This article describes how the archaeology of early Anglo-Saxon religion can contribute to the understanding of variety within a pre-Christian world-view where many elements were shared by societies across the North Sea and Baltic.
paganism, anglo-saxon. The "Anglo-Saxon" history of England stretches from the fifth to the eleventh centuries. Even before then, however, in 98 ce, Tacitus cites the "Angli" as one of seven tribes on the northeastern German seaboard who worshiped "Nerthus, i.e., Earth the Mother" (Robinson, 1935, p. 317), a Bronze Age goddess borne about in a ...
Sometime around the year 1014, the pulpits of Anglo-Saxon England resounded to the words of the caustic homily known as Sermo lupi ad anglos, ‘The Sermon of the Wolf to the English’. The author of the piece was almost certainly Archbishop Wulfstan of York, one of the nation’s leading clergymen, and he was writing as the reign of ...
Abstract. This article argues that the current understanding of English paganism relies too heavily on the belief that, when they wrote of the pre-Christian religion(s) of the English, Pope Gregory I (d. 604), in the letters preserved in his Register, and the Northumbrian monk.
