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Definition A political map of Britain c. 650 (the names are in modern English) The word pagan is a Latin pejorative term that was used by Gentile Christianity (also: Pagan Christianity) in Anglo-Saxon England to designate non-Christians. In Old English, the vernacular language of Anglo-Saxon England, the equivalent term was hæðen ("heathen"), a word that was cognate to the Old Norse heiðinn ...
Tom Rowsell. The essay looks at historical sources in an attempt to determine the origin of the cult of Woden and also to explore the dynastic and religious functions, history and patterns of Woden’s inclusion in Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies. Download Free PDF. View PDF.
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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 ...
2018, HEATHEN PATHS: Viking and Anglo Saxon Pagan Beliefs. Since the original publication of this book in 2007 many fresh archaeological investigations and academic studies have been published. There have also been some important new developments in the modern Heathen world and its’ institutions and the trends of thinking and influences of ...
- Pete Jennings
Paganism (from classical Latin pāgānus "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, [1] or ethnic religions other than Judaism. In the time of the Roman Empire, individuals fell into the pagan class either because they were ...
Containing nine separate papers produced by various scholars working in the fields of Anglo-Saxon archaeology and Anglo-Saxon history, the book presents a number of new perspectives on Anglo-Saxon paganism and, to a lesser extent, early Anglo-Saxon Christianity.
Drawing on this material, historians and archaeologists have interpreted the pagan ancestors of the English in different ways, reflecting the shifting socio-political, religious and intellectual climates of the day.
