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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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    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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    a result of the Anglo-Saxon migrations. Old English replaced Latin and Brittonic languages, and Anglo-Saxon forms of Germanic paganism became dominant...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Press A racial form of Heathenry Wotan (disambiguation) Wodenism, Anglo-Saxon paganism Odinism (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    "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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  • 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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    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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  • Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Magic is a study of Anglo-Saxon paganism and the role of magic in Anglo-Saxon England that was written by the English poet and...
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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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    The period of Anglo-Saxon warfare spans the 5th century AD to the 11th in Anglo-Saxon England. Its technology and tactics resemble those of other European...
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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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    where scholars usually specify which branch of paganism is meant (e.g. Norse paganism or Anglo-Saxon paganism). The term "Germanic religion" is sometimes...
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    yet the poem was recorded by Christian Anglo-Saxons who had mostly converted from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism around the 7th century. Beowulf thus...
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