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Saint Alban – first Christian martyr in Britain. [2] Cenwalh of Wessex - King of Wessex. [3] Saint Constantine of Strathclyde – King of Strathclyde, and later abbot of Rahan. [4] Cynegils - Anglo-Saxon king of the West Saxons. [5] Raedwald of East Anglia – King of East Anglia from about AD 599 to about AD 625.
Saxons. The Saxons [1] were a group of Germanic [2] peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country ( Old Saxony, Latin: Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of northern Germania, in what is now Germany. [3] In the late Roman Empire, the name was used to refer to Germanic coastal raiders, and in a similar sense to the ...
The conversion of Mercia to Christianity occurred in the latter part of the 7th century, and was carried out almost entirely by Northumbrian and Irish monks of the Celtic Rite. Penda remained pagan to the end, but by the time of his defeat and death, Mercia was largely surrounded by Christian states. As such, it was excluded from many of the ...
Sikhism (0.7%) Judaism (0.4%) Buddhism (0.4%) Other religion (0.4%) Religion not stated (7.2%) British society is one of the most secularised in the world and in many surveys determining religious beliefs of the population agnosticism, nontheism, atheism, secular humanism, and non-affiliation are views shared by a majority of Britons. [1]
Category:Anglo-Saxon deities. Category. : Anglo-Saxon deities. The gods and goddesses of the polytheistic religion practiced in England during the Old English period, before the conversion to Christianity. Some of these deities survived into the folklore of the modern era such as Woden, Weyland and Wade, though many others were forgotten.
The topic is intriguing not only because Anglo-Saxon paganism was presumably the chief religion during a time when the English language began to develop its own identity. Crucially, we cannot fully understand the Anglo-Saxon period in England without paying some attention to its light pagan colouring (Jesch 2004: 55).
