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Heathen gods in Old English literature

Richard North offers an interesting view of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian paganism and mythology in the pre-Viking and Viking age, with special reference to a pre-Christian god known as Ingui. He reconstructs the slender Old English evidence in an imaginative and original treatment of poems such as Deor and The Dream of the Rood.
Print Book, English, 1997
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 374 pages ; 24 cm
9780521551830, 0521551838
36178512
Nerthus and Terra Mater : Anglian religion in the first century
Ingui of Bernicia
Ingui's cult remembered : Ing and the ingefolc
Woden's witchcraft
'Uoden de cuius stirpe' : the role of Woden in royal genealogy
Aspects of Ingui : -geot and Geat
The cult of Ingui in Beowulf
Ingui's marriage : natural phenomena
Ingui's death : the world-tree sacrifice
Paulinus and the stultus error : the Anglo-Saxon conversion