Considers evidence for Germanic goddesses in England and on the Continent, arguing modern scholarship focuses on divine functions rather than localities and social structures
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
Philip A. Shaw is Lecturer in English Language and Old English, University of Leicester.
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*
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