ISBN: 9781459049765

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1876. Not illustrat… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1876. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... the idols1; lastly that at the court of Eadwini of Northumberland there was a chief priest2, and, as we may naturally infer from this, an organized heathen hierarchy. The poenitentials of the church and the acts of the witena-gemots are full of prohibitions directed against the open or secret practice of heathendom3; from them we learn that even till the time of Cnut, well-worship and tree-worship, the sanctification of places, spells, philtres and witchcraft, were still common enough to call for legislative interference; and the heavy doom of banishment, proclaimed against their upholders, proves how deeply rooted such pagan customs were in the minds of the people. Still in the Ecclesiastical History of Beda, in the various works which in later times were founded upon it and continued it, in the poenitentials and confessionals of the church, in the acts of the secular assemblies, we look in vain for the sacred names in which the fanes were consecrated, or for even the slightest hint of the attributes of the gods whose idols or images had been set up. Excepting the cursory mention of the two female divinities already noticed, and one or two almost equally rapid allusions in later chronicles, we are left almost entirely without direct information respecting the tenants of the Saxon Pantheon. There are however other authorities, founded on traditions more an i H. E. iii. 8. Malmesbury says that he destroyed also their chapels, sacella deoruin. De Gest. Reg. lib. i. SS 11. a H. E. ii. 13. 3 See these collected in the Appendix at the end of this volume. cient than Beda himself, from which we derive more copious, if not more definite accounts. First among these are the genealogies of the Anglosaxon kings: these contain a multitude of the ancient gods, reduced i... John Mitchell Kemble, Books, Travel, The Saxons in England (Volume 1); A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period of the Norman Conquest Books>Travel This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 1; Original Published by: B. Quaritch in 1876 in 560 pages; Subjects: Great Britain; History / Europe / Great Britain; History / Medieval; Travel / Europe / General; Travel / Europe / Great Britain;<

ISBN: 9781459049765

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1876. Not illustrat… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1876. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... the idols1; lastly that at the court of Eadwini of Northumberland there was a chief priest2, and, as we may naturally infer from this, an organized heathen hierarchy. The poenitentials of the church and the acts of the witena-gemots are full of prohibitions directed against the open or secret practice of heathendom3; from them we learn that even till the time of Cnut, well-worship and tree-worship, the sanctification of places, spells, philtres and witchcraft, were still common enough to call for legislative interference; and the heavy doom of banishment, proclaimed against their upholders, proves how deeply rooted such pagan customs were in the minds of the people. Still in the Ecclesiastical History of Beda, in the various works which in later times were founded upon it and continued it, in the poenitentials and confessionals of the church, in the acts of the secular assemblies, we look in vain for the sacred names in which the fanes were consecrated, or for even the slightest hint of the attributes of the gods whose idols or images had been set up. Excepting the cursory mention of the two female divinities already noticed, and one or two almost equally rapid allusions in later chronicles, we are left almost entirely without direct information respecting the tenants of the Saxon Pantheon. There are however other authorities, founded on traditions more an i H. E. iii. 8. Malmesbury says that he destroyed also their chapels, sacella deoruin. De Gest. Reg. lib. i. SS 11. a H. E. ii. 13. 3 See these collected in the Appendix at the end of this volume. cient than Beda himself, from which we derive more copious, if not more definite accounts. First among these are the genealogies of the Anglosaxon kings: these contain a multitude of the ancient gods, reduced i... John Mitchell Kemble, Books, Travel, The Saxons in England (Volume 1); A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period of the Norman Conquest Books>Travel, General Books LLC<