Hi #medievaltwitter, a non-medievalist friend is doing some research for a book they're writing and finding it hard to find any reliable sources on Germanic paganism, especially day-to-day life in a non-Christian community.
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I'd love to help but it's just not really my area!
@AdmiralHip @LotsBae@HalstedMedieval@Braciatrix@StephenHewer@conor_kostick@NiallOSuill I don't know if any of you have really looked at this either, but if you happen to have come across anything?5 replies 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @HighHawkSeason @HalstedMedieval and
I’d be wary of labeling anything as Germanic paganism. That veers hard into nineteenth century and early twentieth Pan-Germanism that is linked to white supremacy and Nazi shit.
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With that being said, there is very little. On the Continent, we have some Christian accounts. The Life of Columbanus by Jonas of Bobbio, Boniface on the Saxons...but nothing from the people themselves, and the sources are all hostile.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @HighHawkSeason and
For anything in Scandinavia then I agree that The Viking Way or talking to Christina is the best. For anything in England, there is incredibly little in Bede. Beowulf wouldn't be that accurate so I'd caution your friend away from that. We know kings claimed descent from Woden.
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The early medieval period does not give us much info on regular folks period, let alone non-Christians. Bernadette Filotas' Pagan Survivals, Superstitions, and Popular Cultures is great but the people depicted would have been considered Christians, not "pagans".
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