Heathen Gods in Old English Literature »

A redefinition of Anglo-Saxon paganism as a natural religion with a heathen god, Ingui, at its heart.

Preface; List of abbreviations;

1. Nerthus and Terra Mater: Anglian religion in the first century;
2. Ingui of Bernicia;
3. Ingui's cult remembered: Ing and the ingefolc;
4. Woden's witchcraft;
5. 'Uoden de cuius stirpe': the role of Woden in royal genealogy;
6. Aspects of Ingui: -geot and Geat;
7. The cult of Ingui in Beowulf;
8. Ingui's marriage: natural phenomena;
9. Ingui's death: the world-tree sacrifice;
10. Paulinus and the stultus error: the Anglo-Saxon conversion; Bibliography; Index.