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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Replying to @AdmiralHip @HighHawkSeason and
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 @HalstedMedieval and
That's what I expected tbh, I was actually kind of hoping for some secondary sources that have good interpretations of those hostile sources!
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Replying to @HighHawkSeason @HalstedMedieval and
I can pull up some stuff on the English evidence in a bit. I’d also recommend my thesis, when it’s done haha.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @HalstedMedieval and
Oh I had no idea this was actually relevant to your work!
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Kingship across conversion era Ireland and England and how it changed or didn’t change with conversion, so yeah it underpins my work haha.
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