Promotional Information

Considers evidence for Germanic goddesses in England and on the Continent, arguing modern scholarship focuses on divine functions rather than localities and social structures

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Footprint of Pre-Christian Worship 2. Linguistic Models and Methods 3. The Romano-Germanic Religious Landscape and the Early Middle Ages 4. Eostre: Pan-Germanic Goddess or ‘Etymological Fancy’? 5. Hreda 6. Conclusion: Roles of the Northern Goddess? Notes Bibliography Index of Words General Index

About the Author

Philip A. Shaw is Lecturer in English Language and Old English, University of Leicester.

Reviews

It offers a fresh and productive method for examining fragmentary data for Anglo-Saxon (and, by implication, other pre-Christian) religion. It is a welcome contribution and should find a place in university libraries and on the shelves of early medievalists in general.
*The Historian*