Heathen gods in Old English literature

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Heathen gods in Old English literature

Richard North

（Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 22）

Cambridge University Press, 2006, c1997

  • : pbk

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"This digitally printed first paperback version 2006"--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. 343-354

Includes index

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Heathen gods are hard to find in Old English literature. Most Anglo-Saxon writers had no interest in them, and scholars today prefer to concentrate on the Christian civilization for which the Anglo-Saxons were so famous. Richard North offers an interesting view of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian paganism and mythology in the pre-Viking and Viking age. He discusses the pre-Christian gods of Bede's history of the Anglo-Saxon conversion with reference to an orgiastic figure known as Ingui, whom Bede called 'god of this age'. Using expert knowledge of comparative literary material from Old Norse-Icelandic and other Old Germanic languages, North reconstructs the slender Old English evidence in a highly imaginative treatment of poems such as Deor and The Dream of the Rood. Other gods such as Woden are considered with reference to Odin and his family in Old Norse-Icelandic mythology. In conclusion, it is argued that the cult of Ingui was defeated only when the ideology of the god Woden was sponsored by the Anglo-Saxon church. The book will interest students interested in Old English, Old Norse-Icelandic and Germanic literatures, Anglo-Saxon history and archaeology.

目次

  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1. Nerthus and Terra Mater: Anglian religion in the first century
  • 2. Ingui of Bernicia
  • 3. Ingui's cult remembered: Ing and the ingefolc
  • 4. Woden's witchcraft
  • 5. 'Uoden de cuius stirpe': the role of Woden in royal genealogy
  • 6. Aspects of Ingui: -geot and Geat
  • 7. The cult of Ingui in Beowulf
  • 8. Ingui's marriage: natural phenomena
  • 9. Ingui's death: the world-tree sacrifice
  • 10. Paulinus and the stultus error: the Anglo-Saxon conversion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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