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    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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    Germanic peoples, who eventually developed a common cultural identity as Anglo-Saxons, changed the language and culture of most of what became England from...
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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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    "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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  • also settled on the Isle of Wight. The new inhabitants practiced Anglo-Saxon paganism. This was a polytheistic religion in which multiple gods were worshipped...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern...
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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • the free dictionary. Frig may refer to: Frig (Anglo-Saxon goddess), a love goddess in Anglo-Saxon paganism Frig (interjection), an English word Frig (film)...
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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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    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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    "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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    Britain from continental Saxons (referred to in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as Ealdseaxe, 'old Saxons'), but both the Saxons of Britain and those of Old...
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    continued after Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons into the 10th century CE, as attested in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle when an English king is referred...
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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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