Anglo-Saxon Pagan Gods 

Ditto!

English! These are English claiming everything British is Germanic Anglo. Well done for believing it.

Prior to the Anglo Saxon invasion, there was no such person as English. Briton had no such male/female as English. Occupants of these islands were members of various Celtic Tribes.

There were also various people of other tribal and ethnic groups settled here from other parts of the Roman Empire - retired soldiers, merchants, slaves, contacts and family from the Continent.

are you related to shakes spears/

I didn't know this, thank you.

I thought it sounded like something he would write. Thank you.

It’s word for word. I recognised it right away. (Because of a video game level I was stuck on for ages) I knew he took a lot of inspiration from Anglo-Saxon literature but I didn’t realise it was word for word like that. I don’t blame him either, it’s very powerful and emotive wording.

I remember theoden asking "where goes now the horse and his rider". Dang

Yes, Dr. Hutto's translation here seems to be a nod to Tolkien, as most other translations are a bit different, from what I've found, but I would love to know if this one is available too.

Always a dull moment

@@alexthefan68 I'd suspect then that the dullness originates in the listener, rather than the orator.

@@ShaunCheah He is delivering a lecture not an oration, But it is quite brave to admit you are dull for listening to this

@@alexthefan68 bahahahahaha at you trolling Gresham College yt channel saying other people are dull 😆😆 and then coming back a month later to reply. You literally can't make it up!

Yes, it is beautiful and moving

Seems quite likely

Ahhh I used to know that one by heart! Sadly I've forgotten it and will have to look it up

You can find more of Professor Hutton's lectures and upcoming events at www.gresham.ac.uk/speakers/professor-ronald-hutton

What do you understand by the Nordic/Germanic people thinking that the Roman buildings must of been built by giants?

​@James Quinn There is no evidence for such a belief to have ever existed. The only "evidence" put forward are poems, which are, well, poems and as such prone to metaphorical language and hyperbolic language. The metaphor of the "giant" is pretty common in medieval times, and serves to refer to ancient ancestors. Does it mean they thought their forefathers were literal giants ? Of course not… unless they also thought that in the story of David vs Goliath, David was only a slightly smaller giant. Such metaphors only referred to the extent of the genius behind the building of these ancient ruins.

@@remilenoir1271 Yes, my thoughts exactly, I just wanted to know what that person might think. This is a common arguement that I here though, it's quite strange, obviously only well read people have heard this idea, but I've heard it used as 2 fold, 1 as an example of how primitive the Germanic "barbarians" were not just in civilisation but mind and soul, that they thought large stone buildings were made my gods/giants, that it was unthinkable to them that Romans could of built them, and 2, that its an example of religion making people think in primitive ways, in essence I've heard this as an atheist arguement too, painting them as generally primitive because of religion (despite the same Romans being equally as religous and sharing practically the same beliefs) or denigrating their theological ancestor whorship and penchant for explaining and expressing ideas in traditional terminology.

@James Quinn Oh I'm sorry, I hadn't guessed that you made a rhetorical question 😅 Yes, it is a common argument, due in no small part to the roman bias that permeates our knowledge of ancient history.

@@Alfred5555 The Israelites who invaded Canaan in the Old Testament from the mountains to the East said that the cities of the plains had been inhabited by giants. The odd thing is that they would have actually seen the people they were slaughtering, and not just inferred their height from the buildings: except of course that some modern scholars say there was no such invasion or slaughter, and the whole thing was made up by priests in exile in Babylon.

That's an interesting point - how much archaeological works have been done in churchyards ?

We are the peoples whose history he is discussing.

@@Alfred5555Yay for you, but likely not everyone listening to this lecture is of European origin.

Prof Hutton made me fell the presence of the old Gods in my room 💗 it was not a lecture but a seance section 😄

Glad you enjoyed it!

before the British Christians in around zero; or before the false Roman Christians of Augustine in 379 AD?

Maybe also being much closer to the natural world and so more observant of subtleties

Its a dishonest trope elitist historians use to say that "the Germanic barbarians thought it must of been giants who built the Roman building", implying how primitive the Germanics must of been. This is entirely disingenuous and purposely ignores the meaning of "giants" in Germanic mythology, they aren't literally giants as in ,big people, they use the word, Jotun or Jotnar, when used to refer to buildings it is surely metaphorical referring to what they culturally mean by the term "Jotnar", a people who are intelligent and power i.e. Romans.

Glad you enjoyed it!

What evidence do you have that the general populace were literate? That they did write in any substantial amount on materials that haven’t survived? That they didn’t just use them on weapons etc as magic and nowhere else? You can’t claim they were literate without citing evidence.

@@stufour Well, I don't think they were writing on computors or cellphones. Who said that the general populace was literate? The Anglo-Saxons were not living in the late industrial period, didn't have schools. They knew how to write with their own script which was adapted for use on wood, as all characters avoid the horizontal lines of the wood's grain. Our word "book" comes from "beech" on which they probaly wrote, just like in most of the Germanic languages. Knowing how to write meaningful magical spells or the ownership of different valuables is litteracy enough for the Antique world...

Came here to say this, frankly stopped watching after that point was made. Shame academia is so ignorant.

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Probably what little written material would be burned or cut on wood. freight accounts or orders for cargo etc I would guess . Burned after use

@coyoteroadkill, That’s *so cute, supportive and smart!* 🧠 I *love* that you did that!🤓 Have you received much interest so far, in Africa, Australia, New Zealand...?

@@OakleyANDSittingBull I'm not selling them. I think that would be stepping on copyright laws. I just have a Badge-a-Minit button maker and make buttons for myself.

Old English is believe to of evolved from middle English after arriving into Britain that given time become modern English that may of already absorbed some aspects of the old Britain tongues of Britain with the original tongues being the tongues of the welsh natives who are the original peoples of Britain who existed in Britain before the coming of the angle-Saxon or the Irish. Welsh is the best surviving of the old tongues with Irish tongues like Gaelic being spoking by a small minority of the population, Cornish is pretty much dead.

What do you mean the welsh are the original people of Britain?, the original native English people of Britain didn't just disappear or wasnt there no longer when the saxons arrived? their ancient Britonish DNA carries on to this day in Hundreds of thousands of indigenous English ! , why do people think this way?, it makes it sound like that English are not native and have no rights to their lands compared to the welsh, which is an absolutely absurd way of thinking...

@@wor53lg50 English comes from the angle-Saxon invaders that become known as the British. English comes from middle-English and old English or old Saxon. One of the many Germanic tribes. The welsh existed in Britain before the Irish , Scottish or the angle-Saxon. The race that the roman empire tried to exterminate.

@@masterlee9822 i was referring to the other posted comment about the Welsh being the true British natives only?, who do you think the saxons married and started families with at the beginning🤔, also the pict line of east lowland scots did this also... Can you see why the English wont and shouldn't except that sort of comment..the few saxons that did come over already had ties to Britain through trade, maybe already had family there! , they more than likely was called for by some British tribal cheiftains themselves after romans left as some sort of police force to keep the peace and order and to reform a coherent army due to there known military organising skills and also being neutral, the anglo saxon army that was formed was in fact the ancient English/British themselves mostly that it consisited of..that ancient celt DNA which has a large percentage in hundreds of thousands of indigenous English that is also twinned with the welsh peoples DNA markers dos'nt lie im affraid..

@@wor53lg50 The welsh where shoved into Wales while the Saxons imported their woman and children from Germany and the surrendering nations and recolonized much of the British island. Genetic studies results are their are little to no movement of genetic material between the Saxon and Celts in that period with the greater amount being after the Saxons converted to Christianity.

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You have to remember, the written Norse records are hundreds of years older. Anglo Saxon paganism died around 650, but Norse paganism continued until about 1200. The norse variant likely changed a bit since the anglo saxon paganism died

@@0x00a yes but continental Germanic tribes even the Saxons who remained in North Germany were pagan for 200 more years until the wars against the Franks. Ironically the Saxon Bible the Heliand preserves some beliefs by listing them as forbidden. Cheers from Mercia

I loved that movie. "I cannot lift this." "Grow stronger!"

That's why it seemed so familiar.

Bristol University and Gresham College, London.

You also have "harg" in Old Norse.

Oh, and you also have "vi" in places like Ullevi and so on.

I'd be more inclined to suspect “hov” is cognate with place name elements “how” and/or “hoo”.

@@laamonftiboren4236 The Norwegian encyclopedia called Store Norske Leksikon states that a hov, was a building used for religious worship during the Viking age before Christianity. Meanwhile horg was more commonly used for when it was just a religious place without any specific building. Apparently hov in Norse was pronounced like hof, originated from the word for farm hoff.

Anglo-Saxon Pagan Gods 1417pm 8.2.23 alleged norman and roman use and abuse of native labour would suggest the angles and the saxons and whoever else littered the country prior to the various invasions and post invasion scenarios would be well versed in such materials where building their structures are concerned.... tudors, and the like, enjoyed utilizing wood in their buildings... most of london prior to the great fire would have been built in wood - as would most church alters be carved in timber etc etc... perhaps another case of treating the Uk's past as a savage blip in the alleged far sighted civilized past? the poem - another melding of old legend refert of Odysseus and his travails...?

@@jamesedgewood4643 Anglo-Saxon Pagan Gods 8.2.23 1557pm i am not offended by the "plausible facts" - at all!!! i welcome anyone who has something to impart... it's all hypothetical discourse, anyway. i am very much enamoured of the anglo-saxon (and/or any other tribe native to this soil). such folk were milling about these plains way before anyone decided to add monikers to their lineage etc etc... you know what i am going to impart, anyway - such is the tediousness of such matters - it being a vast merry-go-round of claim counter claim and such like... so there is no need for you to be defensive - at all!! mass forest clearances of UK and Europe as a whole will be the deciding factor re: what materials were used to build with. the material wood was ready to hand - therefore it is posited that the vast majority of buildings would be constructed with such a material. rather than most folk wandering around suggesting themselves to be such clever little boys and gals - i have no particular axe to grind. nor any particular issue with the past. our mindsets haven't altered that much in all that time... and we see the incessant b.s of today would certainly be applicable to the incessant b.s of yesteryear.

I like to keep the most personal things we're all different my husband kept his mother's inhaler very personal

@@rebeccabedford9855 Yes, I probably shouldn't have made it such a blanket statement. I'm sure back in prehistory, people were inclined to want to hold into keepsakes and belongings of beloved people. But those don't end up in burial tombs, so I guess that's why we don't have any evidence of 4th century inhalers being used.

​@@BillWiltfongit certainly may have played a role together with hopes of an afterlife.

This guy clearly christian and wants to delegitimise our pagan roots in older peoples

​@@ladladladlad8863er no prof. Hutton is a practicing neo-pagan

Grabbing lunch with the Morlocks on the Sheffield downs.

Are you joking?