Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, or Anglo-Saxon polytheism...
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(2000). "The Gods Themselves". Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past: The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism and Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 77–84...
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language Anglo-Saxon paganism Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon riddles Anglo-Saxon runes Anglo-Saxon runic rings List of Anglo-Saxon saints...
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Britain by diverse Germanic peoples led to the development of a new Anglo-Saxon cultural identity and shared Germanic language, Old English, which was...
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Anglo-Saxon religion may refer to : Anglo-Saxon paganism Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon mission in the Frankish Empire in the 8th century...
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"Chapter 3, At the Water's Edge". Signals of Belief in Early England: Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited. Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-1-84217-395-4. JSTOR j.ctt1cd0nf9...
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of the Anglo-Saxon migrations, such as Latin and Brittonic languages being replaced by Old English and Anglo-Saxon forms of Germanic paganism becoming...
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The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now...
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runes. Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians)...
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Sutton Hoo (category Anglo-Saxon paganism)
Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Archaeologists have been...
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Old English literature (redirect from Anglo-Saxon poetry)
Anglo-Saxon Past: The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism and Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury, Boydell & Brewer (published 2000). Sweet, Henry (1908), An Anglo-Saxon...
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The Anglo-Saxon period was dominated by two separate religious traditions, the polytheistic Anglo-Saxon paganism and then the monotheistic Anglo-Saxon Christianity...
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Centwine of Wessex (redirect from Centwine of the West Saxons)
686, although he was perhaps not the only king of the West Saxons at the time. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that Centwine became king c. 676, succeeding...
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death. According to Bede, the battle marked the effective demise of Anglo-Saxon paganism. The roots of the battle lay in Penda's success in dominating England...
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Heathen hof (redirect from Anglo-Saxon temple)
temple-farms. One Anglo-Saxon church, however, arguably is a stave-church: that at Greensted in Essex. Also, some of the earliest Anglo-Saxon churches consisted...
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Symbel (category Anglo-Saxon paganism)
are preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf (lines 489-675 and 1491–1500), Dream of the Rood (line 141) and Judith (line 15), Old Saxon Heliand (line 3339)...
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Seax-Wica (category 1970s in modern paganism)
neopagan practice blending aspects of Wicca with the iconography of Anglo-Saxon paganism, while not seeking to reconstruct the early mediaeval religion itself...
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Rheda (mythology) (category Anglo-Saxon goddesses)
In Anglo-Saxon paganism, Rheda (Latinized from Old English *Hrêðe or *Hrêða, possibly meaning "the famous" or "the victorious") is a goddess connected...
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The newcomers eventually conquered England, and their religion, Anglo-Saxon paganism, became dominant. The Britons of Wales and Cornwall, however, continued...
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Rune poem (category Anglo-Saxon paganism)
Further, the poems provide references to figures from Norse and Anglo-Saxon paganism, the latter included alongside Christian references. A list of rune...
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Wyrd (category Anglo-Saxon paganism)
Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to Modern English weird, whose meaning...
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Cenwalh of Wessex (category Converts to Christianity from Anglo-Saxon paganism)
from c. 642 to c. 645 and from c. 648 until his death, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in c. 672. Bede states that Cenwalh was the son of the King...
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mission sent from Italy to England to Christianise the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism, although the date of his arrival is disputed. He...
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Old Norse religion (redirect from Nordic paganism)
"Scandinavians and 'Cultural Paganism' in Late Anglo-Saxon England". In Cavill, Paul (ed.). The Christian Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England: Approaches to Current...
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Edwin of Northumbria (category Converts to Christianity from Anglo-Saxon paganism)
Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, pp. 80–81. Bede, HE, II, xiv. Bede, HE, II, xv. Fletcher, Richard A. (1999). The barbarian conversion: from paganism to Christianity...
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and cofgodas of Anglo-Saxon paganism. These survived Christianisation as fairy-like creatures existing in folklore, such as the Anglo-Scottish brownie...
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Cofgod (category Anglo-Saxon paganism)
Cofgodas ("cove-gods")) was an Old English term for a household god in Anglo-Saxon paganism. The classicist Ken Dowden opined that the cofgodas were the equivalent...
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Wulfhere of Mercia (category Converts to Christianity from Anglo-Saxon paganism)
of Mercia, though it is not known when or how he converted from Anglo-Saxon paganism. His accession marked the end of Oswiu of Northumbria's overlordship...
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Æthelberht of Kent (category Converts to Christianity from Anglo-Saxon paganism)
as the third king to hold imperium over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. In the late ninth century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he is referred to as a bretwalda,...
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nation of Saxons in what is now northern Germany. Although it became convenient to refer to the English Saxons as either English or as Anglo-Saxons after...
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