If you want to learn pre-Christian Germanic law, Anglo-Saxon or Icelandic could be helpful. And then you can read Beowulf. Ða com of more under misthleoþum Grendel gongan, Godes yrre bær; mynte se manscaða manna cynnes sumne besyrwan in sele þam hean.
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Yes… that’s the fascination of the North-Germanic (Icelandic, Norse, Anglo-Saxon) stuff as well. That it’s incredibly alien, but also strangely familiar. Tolkien’s fascination with that queer mixture led to the LotR, apparently
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The earliest Anglo-Saxon material comes from just the time of the switch over from pagan values to Christianity, and it expresses the confusion that engendered.
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_The Battle of Maldon_ describes the heroic confrontation of a semi-Christianized English Earl vs. a pagan Viking invasion force.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/814314255050686464 …
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Tolkien (a devout Catholic, of course) published a “sequel” to The Battle of Maldon, just before LotR, explaining how the English lord should have acted if he were fully Christianized. It’s remarkable I think… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Homecoming_of_Beorhtnoth_Beorhthelm%27s_Son …
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