Anglo-Saxon Pagan Gods

OK but a few questionable assertions here.

Professor Hutton is a gem. Thanks for sharing his work on your channel!

I had a wonderfull history teacher his name was anton bantock mbe he was cut from the same cloth as Proffessor Hutton, Anton came to our secondary school from Oxford and taught generations of us in a way that captured many

Heard of the angle-Saxon rebellion against Christianity and how Catholics where sometimes sainted for torturing woman and children in front of their parents to get the parents to convert and the lack of a native religion of Celts is partly a result of Christianity and the pagan roman empire. Rome exterminated their priests , committed great genocides against the Celts and attempted to oppress the Celtic cultures and victimize the cults even farther resulting in some failed rebellion's. The later Christians attempted to erase the remaining culture and beliefs and oppress the Celtic people even farther . The History of Rome and Christianity is filled with genocide's , slavery and oppression.

Were the Anglo-Saxons German?

I think it's a great mystery that Christianity's most important celebration -- Easter -- has a pagan name in English.

Pagan gods??
What about Yahweh and Allah?
One as powerless and useless as the other.
I can only laugh at someone that calls the gods of our forebears pagan or worse.

Wells cathedral and Barh abbey are built over pagan churches.

Oh man. I've watched the Tudor Monastery series a bunch and when I started this video I immediately perked up. "I know that voice!"
Really neat learning well... what little can be learned about this culture.

Before the Anglo Saxon s there wasn't English there was Brittons but England had not formed

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I've been hunting Ronald Hutton lectures all afternoon after stumbling on one this morning. I can listen to him all day and hopefully will.

Are u talking history or mocking a race which is dead and does'nt have any representative to reply u. Partly because u burnt whoever remained branding them as witch.

There is possible evidence Woden had one eye. The Sutton Hoo helmet has gold foil around the garnets on one eyebrow and not the other, suggesting a darkening of one eye. Some button brooches also show what appear to be a man with one eye blinded.

Professor Ronald Hutton is a national treasure

I appreciate Ronald Hutton's lectures; they always make me think more. He also says (in another Gresham lecture) that: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.". 
On the other hand he repeatedly says that there is no evidence of pagan presence under English churches. No active English church could be excavated; without massive bureaucratic effort; since before archaeology was invented.

You'd think that Norse and Germanic god's would be very much similar, but apparently this is not the case. The prime example being the Valkyries who in Norse mythology are heroic shield maidens who take the fallen to Valhalla. However the Germanic equivalents are viewed as dark malevolent furies, and far removed from their Norse counterparts.

I am a proud Saxon warrior and the Gods are with me,
may all your days been blessed,
And may you live and die free,

as the Gods blessed the days.
and the black raven lays
The Gods will guide us
In true and honest ways.

-me

I knew I should have skipped the sinister part!

(Much) better than Coronation Street.

Thank you!

He read the poignant poem bewailing the deaths of the warriors and the ruin of the castle, at the end i was in tears 😥, then he said "Cheerful stuff, isn't it?" and i laughed 😂.

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What a mine of knowledge this man is. A true British elder.

Tuatha De Dannaan (Family of Dan) migrated from Eireland to modern Scotland. They are said to have come from Turkey and northern Levant.

Dragons and Swastikas on crematory urns from A-S Britian were an indication that the Buddhist person within was killed fighting against the Welsh Britons - signified by our Dragon?

A number of Churches in Wales and Rheged and Kernow are sited within ancient British temple-sites. However, since many British Churches were raised before Augustine came, and before the Anglo-Saxon 'invasion', you would hardly find a temple under the Church, if you went down far enough to know you had gone beyond the British Church level. As to place-names, holy names were attached to communal or spiritual edifices, and locations, whereas personal names were used for domestic residence places. There was no need to rename the former, but frequent need to rename the latter, as residence changed hands. This is a great lecture covering so much material and square miles!

From that poem, The Wanderer, Tolkien stole several lines word for word. That's disappointing.

Anglo Saxon pride

This was an excellent lecture. I really enjoyed it. I know so little about the Anglo-Saxons, but that may be because there is such a dearth of information about them. I know more about them now.

The modern Germanic countries are fairly consistent in using Germanic deity names for Tues-Fri suggesting the names of the week were locked in fairly early on, even during the time of the Roman Empire as a large chunk of Northern Gaul was Germanic.

"weoh...a holy place on flat groud, esp near roads" -- probably means 'way', then, right? Proto-Germanic *wega- "course of travel, way" (source also of Old Saxon, Dutch weg, Old Norse vegr, Old Frisian wei, Old High German weg, German Weg, Gothic wigs "way"), from PIE root *wegh-.

Captivating lecture, only 12 minutes in, very much enjoying.

I really don't understand how historians can look at all this material and still believe ancient Christian propaganda narratives of peaceful conversion of savages. It is also really quite annoying that he keeps talking about how short it was because he uses 2 very arbitrary dates for its time period even though it would have been present in the roman era, after official conversion and then reemerging in the viking age and the danelaw. But the most egregious of this lecture is counting them as illiterate when there is evidence contrary.

Another excellent lecture by Prof Hutton. My thanks to Gresham College yet again for making this publicly available.

The days of the week could be something bordering a cultural reverence and euhemerization of the pagan gods. Woden was woven into the family trees of AS regents, so I wouldn't think it impossible for a similar thing to happen with the others. Frigge and Woden as a kind of cultural 'adam and eve', with their relatives being incorporated in some way also, perhaps merely as cultural heroes in a manner similar to characters such as Beowulf or Weland.

Anyone interested in the fall of Roman Britain should read Robin Fleming's books. They are excellent.

I have to disagree with the assessment about the burial elements from different parts of the Germanic world, as an indication of a 'cosmopolitan' attitude. More likely I would think it indicates the origin of those in the burial.

Nice use of a British helmet! Found at Sutton hop where Coelbren was also found on a Spoon, Sword and instrument, which is clearly a Welsh instrument. How did Coelbren that supposedly wasn’t invented until 1800 by Iolo Morgannwg get on such items? One can also tell thanks to the clear and distinctive Celtic Mustache.

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I always find it laughable when the Romans denigrate other cultures because they did some human sacrifices. How many thousands died in Roman arenas for the entertainment of those 'civilised' Romans? Were they not indeed the people who practised human sacrifice on an industrial scale? I take Roman opinions on other peoples with a huge pinch of salt.

a thoroughly enjoyable and informative episode, as always. thank you prof hutton and gresham college.

By FAR my favourite Gresham Professor: A brilliant mind, encyclopedic memory, gentle humour—and an artist’s sensitivity to his subject….❤

The British Island have been home of greek, celtic and germanic tribes even in the bronze age.
Just look at the British tribes documented by the Roman's. Half of them are celtic - germanic mixed.

Inner peace feed both wolves correct and the story continues for greater connection to the gods...the ancients knew the heart and instincts were spirit beings of light not mind/consciousness, body...Sutton hoe mask, man, crow, wolf...peace and blessings

Genius of a man. Amazing to listen to.
What classes did he take I wonder? Being like him has Been a dream of mine.

It is not altogether true that the conversion of the British Isles to Christianity during the Anglo-Saxon was as peaceful as this lecture suggests. Aside from the wars between Christian and 'pagan' kings, there is the case of the Isle of Wight, which was converted to Christianity via - quoting Wikipedia - ethic cleansing (genocide), with the 'heathen' Jutes being more or less exterminated and replaced by West Saxons.

Hutton: Everyone who does the Anglo-Saxon period slaps the Sutton Hoo helmet on it
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A really good lecture, and also a very nice suit, if I might add.

I wished my history (and other) profs at uni would have been just half as effetely informativ and entertaining. Wonderfull!