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Pagan literature of the Anglo Saxon comes from?


Anonymous: It was made up of poems and All the English poems prior to the Norman conquest are included in Anglo Saxon literature those poems can be divided into two groups, Christian poetry and pagan.Pagan group contains Germanic sages, tales, legends etc. on the other side Christian group talked about the Bible the lives of the saints etc. the two groups co existed until the Norman conquest.
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Contemporary knowledge of Anglo-Saxon paganism derives largely from three sources: textual evidence produced by Christian Anglo-Saxons like Bede and Aldhelm, place-name evidence, and archaeological evidence of cultic practices.


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albert82: Developing from the earlier Iron Age religion of continental northern Europe, it was introduced to Britain following the Anglo-Saxon migration in the mid 5th century, and remained the dominant belief system in England until the Christianisation of its kingdoms between the 7th and 8th centuries, with some aspects
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