Anglo saxon paganism

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Old English / Anglo-Saxon (Englisc) was the West Germanic language spoken in the area now known as England between the 5th and 11th centuries. Speakers of Old English called their language Englisc, themselves Angle, Angelcynn or Angelfolc and their home Angelcynn or Englaland. (...)

What is Oimelc? Related to Imbolc and Disting is another name for the Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian pagan holiday. Festival of Idises and Disir.

Our ancestors, the Anglo-Saxons lived in the Forest of Dean and spoke Old English. They gave us the names for our days of the week. Most of them were named after Anglo-Saxon gods, except Saturday w…

Our months of the year are based on the lunar cycle. The word ‘month’ in English or ‘mōnath’ in Old English is related to our word for moon. Here the Old English is separate…

London: Oxford University Press / The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 234pp. + 4 b/w plates. Maroon cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Index. B/w frontis, plates & in-text illustrations. 'Publications of The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, New Series, No.3.' An important study of early British magico-medical beliefs and practices - of the type that would later inform

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Anglo-Saxon heroes, gods, progenitors Hengist and Horsa depicted as mercenaries fighting Picts by Gramanh Folcwald