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.
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